Pull tabs

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Do you play pull tabs? I've played them only once, when a friend convinced me to drop $10 into a bucket for which I got $1 back. Well I guess the tradition is to take what you win and drop it back in the pull tab bucket. I would have rather minimized my loss down to $9. But, whatever. Of course the resulting ticket didn't win anything. What a weird little habit/hobby pull tabs are. In remember growing up in middle of nowhere Minnesota. We would go to this bar. That is my parents, friends of my parents and me. I was allowed in as I didn't cause a fuss, and well I was almost 18 anyway. We would visit the night away eating basket of French fries and drinking sodas. Well there was this one lady, all done up hair and make up, who would sit by the bar on one of the high stools and play pull tabs. At the end of the night there would be a mountain of pull tabs by her. I often wondered where she got the money from. I once was asked to go buy pull tabs for someone, because this was before I had ever played, and they knew that. It was like, a lucky thing. And sure enough, they won $200. (Now they probably spent way more than that playing the rest of the night, but it's a cool winning) - Bought my sandwich. That was cool. Finally - a lot of the gas stations around here offer pull tabs for sale. I have never really understood this. Aren't bars and casinos good enough places for pull tabs? It wouldn't bother me - other than the pull tabbers tend to take up a lot of time and make long lines - for people who just want to buy some gas. I think if gas stations want to keep offering pull tabs, then they should have a special attendant who works a pull tab only lane. What's your feelings on pull tabs? Here's a video showing people playing pull tabs, incase you are unfamiliar with them. This video isn't mine, or anyone I know.