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christie1111 · #51 Post by **christie1111** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 8:24 am

minimetoo26 wrote:
littlebeast13 wrote:
Here's Fanny! wrote: So it's basically a fancy Trapper Keeper (as if anything could be fancier than a Trapper Keeper, ha!)?

Trapper Keepers RULED!!!!!!

lb13
All supply lists clearly state NO TRAPPER KEEPERS!!!!! I suppose the 80's were unkind to teachers.

Ours also say this.

I did not understand why.

#52 Post by **littlebeast13** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 8:25 am

minimetoo26 wrote:
littlebeast13 wrote:
minimetoo26 wrote: Stephen is in private school, so he has the Devil's Own Trapper Keeper. It is seriously Unzip at Your Own Risk. I think Elvis and Amelia Earhart are partying in there...

The plastic seams on mine were usually stretched to the point of coming apart by the time the year was over....

I look at my desk now and see the same mess of papers stacked up in a corner. Some things never change.....

lb13
But you can reach into the stack and pull out what you want quickly, right? I'm physically disorganized but mentally organized, so I can find stuff in the disaster that is my desk. I suppose I can ditch last year's school papers now...

More often than one would expect....

What scares me is sometimes I'll remember which notebook something was in, and where it was in that notebook, and I hadn't looked at it in years.....

Now if I'm looking for something important, that's a different story.....

lb13

minimetoo26 · #53 Post by **minimetoo26** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 8:27 am

littlebeast13 wrote:
minimetoo26 wrote:
littlebeast13 wrote:
The plastic seams on mine were usually stretched to the point of coming apart by the time the year was over....

I look at my desk now and see the same mess of papers stacked up in a corner. Some things never change.....

lb13
But you can reach into the stack and pull out what you want quickly, right? I'm physically disorganized but mentally organized, so I can find stuff in the disaster that is my desk. I suppose I can ditch last year's school papers now...
More often than one would expect....

What scares me is sometimes I'll remember which notebook something was in, and where it was in that notebook, and I hadn't looked at it in years.....

Now if I'm looking for something important, that's a different story.....

lb13

Rain Man can tell me when we went to WDW, what airline we took, and which hotel we stayed in. We've gone 21 times. At least he doesn't remember the room numbers...

#54 Post by **littlebeast13** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 8:30 am

minimetoo26 wrote:
littlebeast13 wrote:
minimetoo26 wrote: But you can reach into the stack and pull out what you want quickly, right? I'm physically disorganized but mentally organized, so I can find stuff in the disaster that is my desk. I suppose I can ditch last year's school papers now...
More often than one would expect....

What scares me is sometimes I'll remember which notebook something was in, and where it was in that notebook, and I hadn't looked at it in years.....

Now if I'm looking for something important, that's a different story.....

lb13
Rain Man can tell me when we went to WDW, what airline we took, and which hotel we stayed in. We've gone 21 times. At least he doesn't remember the room numbers...

I remember which room number we stayed in during our first three trips to Paducah in 1982, 84, and 86.... of course, that was because of the coincidence that we got the same room each time.

I remember which room I stayed in at The Empire too. There is a baseboard missing somewhere in Room 607, assuming the dump's still standing.....

lb13

Here's Fanny! · #55 Post by **Here's Fanny!** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 8:30 am

minimetoo26 wrote:Rain Man can tell me when we went to WDW, what airline we took, and which hotel we stayed in. We've gone 21 times. At least he doesn't remember the room numbers...

The thing I love about staying at the MGM Grand is that I don't have to remember what wing or hallway or any of that jive. Last time I stayed there my personal map was "Grab the elevator by Humphrey Bogart, get off on the Cary Grant floor and hang a right at Ava Gardner".

minimetoo26 · #56 Post by **minimetoo26** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 8:34 am

Here's Fanny! wrote:
minimetoo26 wrote:Rain Man can tell me when we went to WDW, what airline we took, and which hotel we stayed in. We've gone 21 times. At least he doesn't remember the room numbers...
The thing I love about staying at the MGM Grand is that I don't have to remember what wing or hallway or any of that jive. Last time I stayed there my personal map was "Grab the elevator by Humphrey Bogart, get off on the Cary Grant floor and hang a right at Ava Gardner".

We seriously need a group trip to Vegas. *sigh*

MGM Grand still has coin slots on some slot machines. I like that...

starfish1113 · #57 Post by **starfish1113** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 8:39 am

My five start in five days, 21 hours, and 22 minutes. Not that I'm counting.

Bob Juch · #58 Post by **Bob Juch** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 8:43 am

littlebeast13 wrote:
minimetoo26 wrote:
littlebeast13 wrote: More often than one would expect....

What scares me is sometimes I'll remember which notebook something was in, and where it was in that notebook, and I hadn't looked at it in years.....

Now if I'm looking for something important, that's a different story.....

lb13
Rain Man can tell me when we went to WDW, what airline we took, and which hotel we stayed in. We've gone 21 times. At least he doesn't remember the room numbers...

I remember which room number we stayed in during our first three trips to Paducah in 1982, 84, and 86.... of course, that was because of the coincidence that we got the same room each time.

I remember which room I stayed in at The Empire too. There is a baseboard missing somewhere in Room 607, assuming the dump's still standing.....

lb13

The last time I was by there they were reconstructing it.

MarleysGh0st · #59 Post by **MarleysGh0st** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 8:53 am

minimetoo26 wrote:MGM Grand still has coin slots on some slot machines. I like that...

You don't like Ticket In/Ticket Out?

<sigh>

minimetoo26 · #60 Post by **minimetoo26** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 8:57 am

MarleysGh0st wrote:
minimetoo26 wrote:MGM Grand still has coin slots on some slot machines. I like that...
You don't like Ticket In/Ticket Out?

<sigh>

Most of the time it's what I prefer. But when you are down to 25 cents in credits and it's a three-credit machine and you just want to add the two quarters instead of another whole dollar...

MarleysGh0st · #61 Post by **MarleysGh0st** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 9:09 am

minimetoo26 wrote:
MarleysGh0st wrote:
minimetoo26 wrote:MGM Grand still has coin slots on some slot machines. I like that...
You don't like Ticket In/Ticket Out?

<sigh>
Most of the time it's what I prefer. But when you are down to 25 cents in credits and it's a three-credit machine and you just want to add the two quarters instead of another whole dollar...

Oh, OK.

The coin acceptors aren't any of my concern.

#62 Post by **littlebeast13** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 9:10 am

minimetoo26 wrote:
MarleysGh0st wrote:
minimetoo26 wrote:MGM Grand still has coin slots on some slot machines. I like that...
You don't like Ticket In/Ticket Out?

<sigh>
Most of the time it's what I prefer. But when you are down to 25 cents in credits and it's a three-credit machine and you just want to add the two quarters instead of another whole dollar...

TITO rules for us Georgers, but only if that casino also has self service cash out machines. I hate asking for small change from the cashiers....

lb13

minimetoo26 · #63 Post by **minimetoo26** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 9:11 am

MarleysGh0st wrote:
minimetoo26 wrote:
MarleysGh0st wrote: You don't like Ticket In/Ticket Out?

<sigh>
Most of the time it's what I prefer. But when you are down to 25 cents in credits and it's a three-credit machine and you just want to add the two quarters instead of another whole dollar...
Oh, OK.

The coin acceptors aren't any of my concern.

Believe me, on the slots it's almost always going in and not coming out...

Here's Fanny! · #64 Post by **Here's Fanny!** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 4:48 pm

littlebeast13 wrote:
minimetoo26 wrote:
MarleysGh0st wrote: You don't like Ticket In/Ticket Out?

<sigh>
Most of the time it's what I prefer. But when you are down to 25 cents in credits and it's a three-credit machine and you just want to add the two quarters instead of another whole dollar...

TITO rules for us Georgers, but only if that casino also has self service cash out machines. I hate asking for small change from the cashiers....

lb13

The MGM Grand was the first place where I got scrip from the machine. As well as one of the only ones, but I haven't been to Vegas in a couple of years. I personally like it because I have a severe problem hitting the 'cash out'. I justify it by saying I don't want to sit and wait for it to dump, then have to wait for the attendant to fill the hopper, then haul around a couple buckets of coin.

When I do manage to cash out, I just start feeding the coins in again (just one more, I'm sure the next one is going to hit!). With the scrip, I can have a moment of strength, hurry and hit the cash out and then I can't do anything about it until I turn it in at the cage.