Last warning from Brantford Poker Casino 

JCT: After being banned from the Brantford Poker Casino for 
one week for coloring up without their executive approval, 
you know they are out to get me. 

Tonight, I got my last warning. I forgot to tell the pit 
boss I was going to eat. 

I know it's not what anyone would call a serious offence in 
most casinos of the world, but this is a government-run 
operation. 

Here's how it works. Everyone can have two 1-hour food break 
per 8-hour shift. Only one person may be on food break at a 
time. You ask the pit poss for the "lunch box," a square 
clear plastic cover for your chips while you're off to 
lunch. Most people wait until it's their blind before 
covering their chips and leaving. 

Another fellow was on the lunch break so I loudly stated 
"Dibs on the next lunch break." No one else spoke up to say 
they'd already asked for the next lunch break. So I know I 
was next. 

When the diner got back to the table, I took the cover and 
put it aside while I played the rest of my hands until my 
blind. When my blind arrived, I covered my chips and sent to 
lunch. 

When I returned, the pit boss took me aside and told me that 
I was being given my "last warning" for not informing the 
pit boss that I was going to lunch. I had forgotten. And now 
it was going to used as a reason to bar me from the game. 

I pointed out that this was completely minor, that it had 
never happened in the two years I'd been playing there and 
they were over-reacting. Didn't matter, it was my last 
warning....

After settling in Brantford, bring my mother to live here, 
they're threatening my livelihood by counting such a trivial 
rule violation as grounds for final ejection. 

I guess they must have come to the conclusion that my 
protestations were bluffs. Well, now that they have 
officially put me jeopardy, they've forced my hand. 

See http://www.cyberclass.net/turmel/olcg.htm for upcoming 
developments. 

Imagine, my offence is that I forgot to say "I'm next on the 
lunch list" to the pit boss. That's what I'm guilty of. 

Of course, it stems from the floorperson who must have asked 
what happened that I had the box over my chips and the other 
person had returned. And if no one told the floorperson that 
I had simply gone to lunch, it was obvious that I had gone 
to lunch anyway. So the floorperson decided to make an issue 
of the fact that I'd forgotten to inform the floor that I 
was going to lunch. 

Think about that! The floorperson decided to get me barred 
over forgetting to say I was going to lunch. 

Anyway, I'm about to give them the nightmare they've been 
courting. 

Imagine, the next person on the list went to lunch without 
informing the floorperson. You have to wonder why they 
didn't just ban me outright for such a serious offence? 

It's too sick to laugh about. Someday though, it'll be a 
good joke.