Ya’ll, I just can’t believe it!! Lordy have mercy, I tell ya I just can’t believe it!!  My boy Enis and me, well we went down to them river boat casinos. You never saw so much goins on as we saw there! People crammed in those rooms in front of those machines like sardines in a can. Enis wanted to go ’cause they was giving away a bunch of stuff. Now Enis, he likes football. Never did understand it myself. All them boys running around and knocking each other to the ground over some little brown flying saucer shaped ball. But them football boys are meat eaters for sure! They sure are healthy looking and can run so fast!!

Anyway, some of the prizes were tickets to some big football game later this month. Enis called it a super bowl or some such. He says the two best teams play against each other and it’s a really big deal. Anyway, Enis put his name in the drawing for those tickets ’cause they cost something like $1,500 a piece just to go watch them boys knock each other to the ground.  On the way in we saw a lady standing beside a rack of the purtiest fur coats you ever saw. I never seen a real fur coat ’cause peta don’t like people to have ‘em and well, I just never seen one. Them coats was the softest thing I ever did see. Some had two different colors of fur on them, some had real leather on the collars and cuffs and there was a snow white one and I just fell in love with that one!! That nice little lady said they was giving some of them away too. All I had to do was put my name on a piece of paper and drop it in a box and I might just win that purty white coat!

Well, me and Enis went walkin’ around and played some of them game machines. They sure were lots of fun. I played one called Jackpot Party, or somethin’ like that. I pushed a little button a few times, bells rang, lights flashed and it made the darndest commotion I ever saw! Then some fella came out and danced around and around. I don’t call what he was doin dancin’ but that’s what Enis said he was doin. Low and behold, that machine went to makin all sorts of noise, more lights flashed and bells rang, people went to hollerin and jumpin up and down like they all went crazy. Some official lookin fella came over and asked me for my name and all. Enis was just speechless, I tell ya. I didn’t know what in the world was going on but finally someone said I hit the jackpot!

The jackpot!! Lordy have mercy! They gave me $5,000!! All I did was put a few dollars in that machine, push a button a few times and they gave me money and two free meals to boot. I like this place. Enis said we should go get something to eat while we wait for the drawins. He said they had some really good eatin places here, and since they was free, we went to the buffet. There was people crammed in there like hogs at a trough!! I could sure see why ’cause man o man, that food smelled good enough to die for. There was everything you can imagine there. Ribs, brisket, pork chops, fish, shrimps, frog legs, tater salad, steak. I wanted to move in and just live there. Me and Enis ate a little bit of everything. I never tasted food so good in all my life.

Just when we got done eatin, they called the names of the winners for the football tickets. Enis fell over out of his chair when he heard his name called. He jumped up screamin, “we’re going to Florida” and hopped and bounced around like he had frogs in his pants. While we was collecting the tickets, they called the names for the ladies who had won them purty fur coats. It was my turn to jump up and down ’cause I won that white one I was so fond of.

What a nice place that casino is. They gave us food, football tickets, a fur coat and enough money to go see that football game! Florida, here we come!!

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