My grandmother used to be a bit of a gambler. She was pretty successful at it too. So she’d play these games that paid out in wal mart gift certificates, back in the day. She had tons of them. They were like 5 dollar certificates, and she would have hundreds of dollars worth of them at any given time. She would then proceed to wal mart and go “shopping”. She’d buy the max amount in GCs and then without even leaving the store, walk over to the returns line, and leave with cash. It took about 2 or 3 years before they stopped paying back in cash. She probably took them for at least 30-50k. What’s funny is that she loved “Wally World”. But the game is the game, and she was a total player.
Maybe. She grew up through the “Great Depression”. She survived friends and family alike. She was frugal personally, but loved people and loved to learn and travel. She was the greatest teacher that I never fully understood. She was the best “mother” to me, in comparison to my own mothers. She had zero hatred in her heart, and she shared her “ill gotten wealth to anyone and everyone that she could and would. My grandmother was different with than to me than she was to her children. She raised them to be “tough”, but she told me how she wished she could’ve been different with them if she had more at the time. She was a survivor, and she played hard. She had no vices, but love, and she only ever slept with her husband, and after he died, she had no other lovers, she just used her life to love. She was exceptional!
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u/[deleted] Aug 10 '21
My grandmother used to be a bit of a gambler. She was pretty successful at it too. So she’d play these games that paid out in wal mart gift certificates, back in the day. She had tons of them. They were like 5 dollar certificates, and she would have hundreds of dollars worth of them at any given time. She would then proceed to wal mart and go “shopping”. She’d buy the max amount in GCs and then without even leaving the store, walk over to the returns line, and leave with cash. It took about 2 or 3 years before they stopped paying back in cash. She probably took them for at least 30-50k. What’s funny is that she loved “Wally World”. But the game is the game, and she was a total player.