"one arm bandits crashin' all those hopes"

Today we went to the seaside resort of Salthill in Galway. I have a not so secret pleasure, I love playing these machines in the casino, the ones where you try to knock money over the lip of this machine by inserting coins that will hopefully push the money over the edge and in to your pocket. It is very addictive but mighty fun. I play the lowest denomination machine and this time it was a 5cent one. I changed 1euro in to 5cents and had 20 goes on this machine, well more than twenty as I think I won about 25cent so got to go another five times. I really love the thrill these machines give and you will the coins to fall and urge the coins to insert to 'come on' 'come on' 'come on', afraid to walk away cause you just know the next turn will be the one that tips everything over the edge. Thankfully I don't usually get carried away by much so as soon as my 5cents ran out I walked away. I cannot walk by one of these machines though with out putting at least one coin in there. The next one will be the big win, I'm sure of it.