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Working in retail over the years and cashing up it was easy to count the notes at speed
The bloody pennies and five pence pieces though..😭Blackbeard to conquer the World
Like most I guess, my days of moving decent lumps of ‘king cash’ around are gone with the flexible friend, but my anecdotal evidence on-course was that the thumbing-cum-flicking-cum-fanning-cum-concertinering speed of bookies’ clerks seemed a significant number of microseconds faster than the – still impressive – thumbs of bank tellers, despite the advantage the latter had of piling the notes on a desk first
Both enjoyably mesmerising but not as remotely enjoyable as my repeated slow thumbs through desocked wedge after an afternoon’s successful tilting
Happy days
Back in the dark ages, I would always write stake, price and hoped for return on the back of the Bookies ticket and let him see me do so.
I've stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains
I've walked and I crawled on six crooked highways“Who’ll toll the bell?
I said the Bull,
because I can pull,
I’ll toll the bell.
All the birds of the air
fell a-sighing and a-sobbing,
when they heard the bell toll
for poor Cock Robin.”The bookies killed the hedge
Betfair killed the wedge
Booh hoo hoo hoo hoo !
Didn’t yer noo ?Simons posts on the star sports pitches are always worth a read, if for nothing other than getting a sense of what type of bet they might take. Some of the races at Cheltenham he reported on appeared to be turning over c.5/6k which will give a sense of where the market is at…
The real drawback with on course betting is the physical cash transaction element, holding 2/3k in cash is just physcially awkward to be walking around withDidn’t the on-course bookmakers get hijacked back in the day on the way home.?
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