Anybody that gambles, gambles with more sinners than saints
Everyone that plays pool in a busy bar or pool hall is in the building with at least some unsavory types, criminals of most sorts. When we gamble we don't ask for a resume to see where the money is coming from, we just want to see the money. Like Dean, I preferred taking the money from those that had gotten it illegally or at the least unethically. My personal thing was to always start the bet small. If somebody else wanted to ramp up the bet I was always obliging. That way I only took more than small amounts from those trying to take large chunks from me. Very few of them were working men but I was a working man myself, owning businesses, working in the petro-chem industry, often several things at one time.
Many of the things that lead to entertaining tales of long ago, few of us would do today. Even the people involved originally have moved on in life and aren't the same people we were decades ago. Most of my old playmates are dead or gone. Every once in awhile I do bump into one. We have all settled down and moved to hell or suburbia, hard to tell the difference sometimes! Saw an old playmate's picture on a billboard, she is a real estate broker these days. Another owns a major engine rebuilding business on the main drag of town. Some like to reminisce about days of yore, some are happy to leave then buried!
Hu
