NEW CONCORDIA — Somewhere in this city, a woman says, “This seems dangerous,” and a man holding a duffel bag of cash responds, “Hear me out.”
Our latest gambling catastrophe followed the formula beautifully.
A former casino worker reportedly warned her partners that rapid expansion would attract dangerous attention. It did.
She warned that casino money came with strings attached. It did.
She warned that spending hours feeding cash into gambling machines was doing bad things to a man’s head. Apparently, the blinking lights won that argument for a while too.
Meanwhile, the men bought guns, upgraded wardrobes and repeatedly discovered that every warning had been accurate several days earlier.
New Concordia produces a remarkable variety of male confidence. We have unemployed confidence, armed confidence, recently-rich confidence and my personal favorite: confidence immediately preceding catastrophe.
Ladies, stop explaining yourselves twice.
Gentlemen, when the former casino dealer says the casino people are dangerous, perhaps postpone the monologue about how you “got this.”