Going to school at NAU had its benefits. One of them was the fact that one of my motivated friends would throw out a "Let's to go Laughlin (Nevada)!" at 9:00 on a Wednesday and invariably by 9:15pm we had a car full of guys with maybe $50 a piece on the way. Gamble all night, and back in Flagstaff for our 8:00am classes. Since NAU is not really know as an academic hotbed, these decisions typically didn't have a lot of scholastic ramifications.
Anyway. At the age of 20 I learned that betting on sports is in a word....stupid. I learned that the three evil sisters of gambling 'Shoulda', 'Coulda', and 'Woulda' miraculously cast a spell on greater than 50% of my bets. After a few years of only occasional payback from these sisters, I finally realized that they are evil whores who are employed by Harrah's, MGM, or Mirage Enterprises - these bitches are casino employees. So, I stopped seeing them, and retreated to the blackjack table where I can usually hold my own.
Well my little Excellent Adventure with Villanova lasted until Saturday evening when North Carolina beat them pretty soundly. It was a semi-longshot, and WTF, it was a fun three weeks following them. I was out $45 from two pools. Little harm, lotsa' fun, and no foul.
I got a great education at NAU, but it wasn't really.....traditional. Degree in hand yes, but what I really learned was that I like brown haired - short - athletic chicks, that I'm an average athlete at best, that gambling is a blast if you go with cash and leave your credit cards home, and that it's really not what you know, it's how good you look doing it - whatever it may be.
F*ck Villanova.
Loved this post, pal.
ReplyDeleteI loved that the main things you learned in college were what kinda chicks you dig, and how your athleticism matched up against others.
I think in college the main thing I learned was that "test taking skill" was irrelevant to actual course material and that I could pretty much fake my way through any lecture class because I knew the way to break down a multiple choice test.
I also learned how to scrape by on tiny buck$. This skill had probably served me the best.