Hinky at the Casino: JDLR
It’s called “Just Doesn’t Look Right“:
In the casino business, or any other, we tend to become complacent, and we stop paying attention to the little things. But a really sharp observer will still be shocked awake at some little unexplained thing: the five o’clock shadow on the woman sitting opposite the big-money player, or too many people watching that game, or the fellow who keeps looking directly at the cameras. The guy who looks as though he slept under an overpass carrying a new shopping bag from Nieman-Marcus, the two players on a table game whose arms were held against their chests, the bulge under that character’s jacket and the man wearing an overcoat on an August day in Las Vegas.
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Mark J. • May 15, 2007 11:19 AM
I’m trying to decide if the jumbled acronym in the title is intentional (as it just doesn’t look right), or not. 😉
My first job as a teen was at a local butcher shop. One day in July, four guys wearing black overcoats and sunglasses walked into the place. Everyone behind the meat counter froze as the four took up strategic places around the store. But then they all just walked out. We speculated either they were practicing for a future hit, or they got freaked out by all the people standing and staring at them. Overcoats in July aren’t “little things.”