When the fun stops?

How many times have you heard 'When the fun stops' on the telly or radio via the bookies who shall remain nameless?

When I was gambling upto July 2022 and for the previous 30 years believe me when I say I had no fun. The bookmakers treat addictive gambling like its a computer game that you cannot put down, like the old pac man or space invaders.

In all my time gambling I never saw funin others nor did I experience it myself. Gambling can be a solitary vice, you are around people who like you are putting on a brave face whilst losing their money, sure we may cheer and smile when we get a win, but it's not like being on holiday in Mexico or waking up on Xmas morning.

Addicting gambling is a cold hard place, there is no fun, their never has been, we live In misery, praying for that win, knowing that our evening could be a pleasant or horrible one based on a horse or dog crossing the line first or the numbers we have selected coming up.

Many a day I would trudge out of the bookies with nothing in my pockets, forcing a smile, not wanting to talk to anybody, my plans around what i would buy to eat changing, going from fish and chips to toast and butter, going from a nice bottle of wine to a cup of coffee whilst turning the computer on and trying to get another loan and hoping it will arrive in my account by the following morning, losing all my self respect and wanting that loan to gamble with.

With gambling the fun never starts but the misery continues until you stop.