Monday, February 07, 2005

So that's not a bluff

I found myself at the shitty $1-$2 poker tables of Commerce Casino last Tuesday. To my immediate left was a man of about 75. He was pretty cool, knew a few things about the game, and had told me he travelled quite a bit to the Phillipines, Thailand, etc. I found myself talking to him more than anyone else at the table. His favorite thing to do was lie about his hand, like saying he had a good pair when he had the nut flush. So after he did this for the third time or so, I said to him, "I don't think I can believe a word you've said to me because you obviously love to lie. I doubt you have ever even been to the Phillipines!" Then he gets serious, pulls out his wallet, and says to me, "You see, I am a member of the True Faith." I'm thinking to myself, "Which one is that?" and expect him to pull out some sort of membership card. But I was mistaken. Instead he pulls out multiple pictures of himself in strange dress, posing with a different woman in each one. "You see, these are my four wives. The True Faith allows us to have many, but only one from a single country, so this is my wife in the Phillipines, this one from Thailand,..." I am already very uncomfortable, and still unsure what freakin religion he is part of, although I was pretty sure I could rule out Christianity by this point. Then he floors me (figuratively speaking). He says, "But if I strap a bomb to myself I will have [insert any ridiculous number] virgins waiting for me on the other side. I haven't built up the courage to that yet, though." "Oh", I say," so you are a Muslim?" I pause, "Floorman!! Table change!"


2 Comments:

Blogger Prophet said...

Holy Sploigan! WTF man?

2/12/2005 4:39 PM  
Blogger Stray Angel said...

lol.so there are still people like tht around who hv no idea wht their 'true faith' is all abt.nothing..jst thinking.on a different note..why dun u hv anonymous comments on?!

2/24/2005 11:46 AM  

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