Hey! I just kinda remembered this and wonder if anyone has had a situation like this @ TTR. Most everyone knew it wasn’t a good idea playing Chinos on horse shoes, of course if you wanted to consistently lose a couple of hundred pesos! OK flashback to October 2011, and was there when the Cardinals clinched over the Texas Rangers in the World Series that year. Game 6 of that series was undoubtedly not only the best WS game ever, but maybe all-time!? There were Rangers fans @ the resort, and 2 couples down there, one close to my age, one older and I were trash talking, and before game 6 I bet each of them $50 pesos on game 6, I was at a disadvantage being one game down. Then a hellatious tropical storm ripped through that day, and the “Wild Cards” came back and won the game. Apparently in some of the resorts in the lower laying areas of the peninsula lost power before the end of the game, and when I went off the resort the next day I heard about this, in fact a few people, locas and tourists were thoroughly convinced Texas had won the night before, and the series was over! Thank GOD NOT! Ok so the day of game 7, I see the two for mentioned couples and we all agree to go “double or nothing” our bets for game 7. So when I was watching the Cards clinch in the sports bar, the younger couple was there, and the guy from Texas was very gracious, gave me a hundred peso note, shook my hand with a warm congratulations, which IMHO is a total class act being that his team had just lost their second Fall Classic in a row. The $100 peso note went into Alfredo’s tip jar, and I gave him my 2011 NLCS Champions hat, he loved it, and found out later he had given it to his father, who was thrilled! SO………….two days go by, and I don’t see the old man who owed me the $100 pesos, and I knew he was leaving the resort the same day I was, which leads me to believe he was avoiding me and I got ganked on my bet. If he is reading this now, you know who you are, I got a good look at ya despite all the celebratory booze intake on my part, and if and when I see you down there again, you BETTER have my jack for me, JACK!
