----- TIMSPEED <corvetteracing87@yahoo.com> wrote:
>I can say this now, because Siena in Reno is closed...
> But once they had a promotion where you spin a wheel for free slot play, the minimum was $1 and the max was $100 (it was a daily spin thing).
> So I spun it and when it hit the $1, I screamed and said "I won the big one!" and the boothling turned around to look and laughed and wrote down my number, etc.
> So I later went to a machine to play it off...I punched in my account info, and low and behold I had $100 loaded!
> So I'm not sure if the boothling made a mistake by pressing $100 rather than $1...or if she knew they were closing, and I was a regular, so she said F it and gave it to me...either way, I figured it my good fortune.I probably would have done the same thing. I used to be far more principled. I was once given $1 too much in change at a drug store. I returned the $1 the next day. I went to a seminar in downtown Seattle and parked in the same lot 2 days in a row. I can't remember why, but I didn't pay for parking on the first day. Maybe I didn't know in advance about the $1 parking fee, which was mostly on the honor system, as the lot had no attendant and the fee was paid by inserting money into a slot and I didn't have any change. On the next day, I paid $2. I don't know if being in casinos corrupted me or wised me up, but by now, I don't know what rule I go by. Sometimes I give found money back and sometimes I don't. I find impossible difficulties in any principle and have concluded that a middle way, that judges each situation by itself, is best.I'm interested to see how far those who say that giving such unintended and unearned benefits back is always "right" and
"good," without qualifying it by the context, will take their
principles. If taking advantage of the mistakes of others is always
wrong, doesn't that rule out all advantage gambling? How could there be
any distinction between individuals and corporations, since
corporations are all owned, ultimately, by individuals? If Michael Jordan wasn't wrong to fake out his opponents because such deception was agreed to be within the rules of the game, do such rules exist between casinos and their customers? Of course, at the other extreme, if finding a $100 bill in a casino and keeping it is good, is seeing one's best friend unknowingly drop a $100 bill and picking it up and keeping it also good?
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