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Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind
One of my ex-girlfriends, who's very cool, spent her summers in the Hamptons ( obviously without me ) and her friends used to give her a hard time about me being a horseplayer and hanging out at the track. She was very happy when they once snidely asked her how I was doing at the track and she got to tell them I hit a Pick-6 for $141K a few days earlier.
They stopped asking her about me.
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Great story!
Especially good with the "spent her summers in the Hamptons" detail!
True story, I was in a bar with some horse players a few days ago and was razzing some guy in his mid-20's when he inquired about a bottle of "chartreuse" that had somehow made it behind the bar in this non-uppity establishment. It was one of those great gambling story and trivia sharing late afternoons, and the totally cool kid let me know that "chartreuse" was a favored drink component of F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby guy). Points to the kid. I was impressed with the off the cuff trivia.
He knew nothing of Nashua and the Woodwards, however.
05-13-2009, 01:05 AM
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