Mississippi Grind Page #3

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I'm an idiot!

I bet to place.

I should have listened to you.

Aww, easy.

You still won big buddy.

C'mon we just won a

whole bunch of money.

Let's go celebrate,

we'll have some drinks.

We'll meet some ladies.

We'll go to a show.

Oh, no no no.

Look at this place.

We can get drinks here. We

can meet ladies here. I'm sure.

Gerry, come on. It don't

get any better than this.

C'mon. Let's go. Let's

go have some fun. Alright?

Hold on. Hold on. Wait.

Next guy that comes

out of the bathroom,

if... he's wearing glasses-

we stay.

If he's wearing glasses-

just, just.

You're on.

Yes!

I'll tell you what Gerry,

never bet on a dog named

after a disabled president.

I thought it was Teddy.

Rollin' Roosevelt?

It's a good name.

No. No, it was not a good name.

Next time you quit when

I tell you it's time.

I used to know this guy back

in Kansas City, Archie Headdy.

Never knew when to quit.

Oh, yeah, yeah, I think

I know where this story is

going, but you don't...

Hey, listen, listen, Gerry.

Okay.

Archie, he owed every

poker player in town at least

three hundred bucks. Minimum.

It got to point where he was

asking his little nephews for

change out of their piggy banks.

I see him at O'Hara's poker room

one day and I walk over to say

hello. I see he's got a handsome

pile of chips in front of him,

over five grand. Archie

starts bragging that he started

the night with just sixty bucks.

Sixty bucks that he borrowed

from some new chump by the way.

So I pulled him aside and say,

"hey, listen. Cash. Out. Now."

He's got enough there to pay

back everybody he owes and

still get a slab at

Oklahoma Joes, right?

"You're right.

You're right."

He says, "I'll stop as soon

as the blind come throught."

- Did he talk like that?

- Like a balloon with helium.

Yeah. So I feel good

about myself, right.

I'm smiling,

I go back to my table.

Think I've done

a good deed here.

The next thing I hear is

Archie's high-pitched screaming

voice saying, "I'm all in."

And he lost everything right?

Of course he

lost everything. Yeah.

But you know

what he says to me?

Says, "don't worry, it

was just sixty bucks."

Some guys are born to lose.

You play? Hmm?

Pool. You play?

Aww, not in a long time.

Hey. Hey. Hey.

Twenty bucks on my buddy here.

- Alright?

- What are you doing?

I'm gonna watch you play

this big winner right here.

You said you played.

Yeah, but not in a long time.

- So you'll lose.

- No, you'll lose.

No, I'm not gonna lose,

I'm spending twenty bucks to

watch you watch you

make a food of yourself.

That's that's not losing.

That's entertainment.

We gonna play or what?

We're gonna play. Oh, we're

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