Joe, I had a lovely fella in the car a few years ago. "I do feel sorry for you fellas out working all the time. I don't have to work", he said to me. "How much money do ye have in your pocket right now." I had about three hundred euro Joe. "See that", he said, "I can make triple that in only an hour down the bookies", he said. He had the nicest house in Darndale so you can't tell me there is'nt people out there making money from gambling Joe.
Joe, myself and three of my mates used to go playing poker on a Monday night in the casinos. We're all ex professionals and one night we were refused entry. We were told we could'nt win anymore money off them because apparently there was reports that four Dublin taxi drivers had cleaned out a few casinos in the Cayman Islands Joe.
Joe, I know a driver that used to make a steady income off the casinos. They could'nt bar him I don't think so they tried to stop him going in to places by firing all the attractive women dealers and only hiring men. All the casino customers went round to picket his mother's house to make him stop going in to places. I don't even think the mother knew he had a gambling problem Joe.
Joe, the staff at my local bookies are terrific. I often ask them to let me know when I've lost a few hundred and they always do. They'll even say "Sorry love, we can't take anymore of your money tonight" if I'm too drunk Joe.
Joe, I often pick up this black taxi driver fella at various casinos around town and I do ask him how he did. "Ah", he does say, "I only won two grand tonight", Joe.
Joe, I picked a fella up one night and he was telling me he won fifteen hundred euro in the bookies. The fare was only a fiver and I told him by right he should give me at least twenty. I got reported and lost my license and now I'm forced to gamble in the bookies myself to make a few quid.
Joe, I know a fella that won twenty five grand in the bookies but he'd hardly nothing left after paying tax and commission.
Joe, I know a fella that won two hundred grand in a casino. They could'nt pay him so they gave him a share in the business and he ran it in to the ground on purpose.
Joe, I picked up this American fella outside a casino one night. I told him he was wasting his money and he laughed. "Do ye know who I am", he said. "I'm such and such, the greatest poker player in the world." I got my daughter to Google him and it was him Joe.
Joe, I picked up a very clever business man going to the airport a few years ago. "Do ye gamble", he said. I told him I did'nt because I thought it was a waste of money. "Ye do gamble", he said. "When you go out working ye can get two fares or twenty fares. That's gambling. I'm Sheikh Mohammed something", he said. "I'm a member of the Saudi royal family and we own thousands of casinos all over the world." When he was getting out he leaned forward and stuffed something in my trouser pocket. When I was changing my trousers a couple of weeks later I found out that it was four hundred euro Joe.
Joe, my primary income comes from wagering money on horses. I'm a gambler with a taxi driving problem Joe.
Joe, I know a driver that got a twenty grand loan from the credit union to buy a new car and he ended up losing it all in the bookies. He had the car he had sprayed a different colour and told the wife it was a new car.
Joe, I picked a fella up a few years ago and he asked me to put a fiver bet on in a bookies for him because he was barred himself. When I came back out my car was gone Joe.
