Top 5 Signs your kid may be addicted to gambling

[Tico]

Top 5 Signs your kid may be addicted to gambling
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5. His school lunches are comped
4. There's a bookie sleeping in his tree-house
3. Changed his middle name to "The Greek"
2. He's 9 and he's dating a showgirl
1. Says things like "Daddy needs a new skateboard"

 

[wilheim]

6. His bike is for sale.
7. He has half a dozen Jim Fiest T-shirts.
8. He watches ESPN. News instead of MTV.
9. He is overheard saying to a phone "I want to buy the hook".
10. His home page is The Prescription.


wil.

 

[Dante]

#1. You are The General's Son

 

[TheGeneral+]

Not to far off Dante, He and I had a discussion on Dime Lines during his lunch hour today

 

[VaultedTreehouse]

That wasn't far off my childhood. When I owed dad money he'd tell me the juice is running. LOL

 

[D2bets]

11. He says his best friend's name is Don...Donnie Best.
12. He only enters the house through the front door, oddly frightened of the back door.
13. When buying orange juice at school, he refuses to pay more than 10 cents and demands a promtional day of 7 cent juice.

 

[sometech]

14. all his grid paper is used for board pools
15. has a NETeller debit card
16. overly excited or depressed the day after super bowl

 

[VaultedTreehouse]

17. Puts his allowance into a money clip.

 

[wilheim]

18. Very depressed even though his favorite team won, but by only 2 points.

19. Calls sauteed liver for dinner a bad beat.

20. Keeps stacks of blank Western Union withdrawal and deposit forms in his room.

wil.

 

[VaultedTreehouse]

Wil, I love #19.

 

[RobFunk]

he has his own phoneline with an a lot of 900# charges

 

[VaultedTreehouse]

21. Asks you to drop him off at a GA meeting after basketball practice.
22. Brags to Grandma about hitting a five team parlay.

 

[D2bets]

23. Refuses to do his homework, swearing that it's a "trap".
24. His surefire strategy for acing the upcoming exam is to fade his loser friend Jimmy.

 

[LEYKIS101]

He gets recorded messages from Jack Price during recess.

 

[-Slim-]

25. Invites all his friends to a seemingly innocent fantasy football league...

 

[Schouest]

26. The chips on his plate with his ham sandwich are in 5 and 25 dollar denominations.
27. Greatest fear is not drowning, but getting rivered.

 

[wilheim]

28. Calls distant relatives in another state to ask "hows the weather".



wil.

 

[-Slim-]

29. Has a cat and a dog, named teaser and parlay, respectively.

 

[wilheim]

30. Tells parents he has to "Get out" then never leaves his room....



wil.

 

[-Slim-]

31. Tries to steal home in his little league team in the top of the ninth inning with two outs and the score 8-0 to push the game "over" 8.5