Should senior citizens be enjoying their retirement with other fun filled activities but instead piiiiiiss away their life saving at games of chance? I was once at the MGM Grand in Detroit and I was amazed at how many of them were there. People being wheeled in wheel chairs, some even had oxygen tanks attached to them, all gambling away.
2007-07-01 03:18:08 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Senior Citizens
LOOKS LIKE IT IS TRUE SENIORS LOVE GAMBLING AND WITH MORE AND GENERATIONS GETTING OLDER I NEED BUY GAMING STOCK.
2007-07-01 12:53:47 · update #1
Because we are rich, worked our @zzez off so people like you could have a computer and cell phone. We invented them. What you don't know is 99% of seniors play nickel slots, $2 blackjack.
It's called-may be strange to you- ENTERTAINMENT.
2007-07-01 06:12:19 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
It's no ones business how seniors enjoy their retirement. You ask "Should senior citizens be enjoying their retirement with other fun filled activities but instead piiiiiiss away their life saving at games of chance".
Shouldn't that be the persons choice? If they're being pushed in wheel chairs and have oxygen tanks attached to them, their recreational opportunities are limited. Have you ever tried to water ski on a wheel chair?
Leave them alone. Gambling is fun, it's legal and it's safe. It's their money, let them enjoy it their way.
2007-07-01 03:50:10 · answer #2 · answered by katydid 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
My mom is 80 and needs a hip operation. She goes stir crazy at home alone sometimes so wants to go out. She can go to lunch with a few women who are starting to all get to sick to want to do much, she can go shopping but not long because walking hurts or she can go sit in a casino where there are people and lights and noise. She is having trouble driving that far now but the last few years she has gone a couple of times a week to get out of the house. She tracks her daily winning or losing and her year to date on the calandar she does care about winning or losing she tracks it the same way she keeps her bowling score she already had to give up golf next will be weekly bowling soon slot machines will be her only sport.
2007-07-01 11:54:53 · answer #3 · answered by shipwreck 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Neither casinos, bingo, shuffleboard, nor Branson are my cups of tea. However they are for many people, young and old. If an elderly person gets a bit of pleasure out of some legal activity, let them be. Life is short, and the disabilities that may accompany aging can limit what one is able to do. Live and let live is what I say.
2007-07-01 04:24:26 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
They have the time and the money. Also physical ailments restrict their ability to do much else.
For all of you young know it alls out there, file these comments your making away in your memory bank. In 40-50 years pull them up and see if you even had a clue about what life holds for most of us.
2007-07-02 04:18:40 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Is it possible that what you do with your time and money others may not care for and is it any of their business? Same applies here. Yes! They have worked for their money and now have the time to spend it as they wish. Some day that shoe will be on your foot and you will make your own choices-as YOU see fit.
2007-07-01 08:55:17 · answer #6 · answered by dragon 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is the reason, they have no children to take care of, so they want to do something with their money, so they see the oppurtunity to win lots of money, and put it to some good use, at least for a thrill. They get to a point in their lives, where they have one of two mentalities, "i've done my time working, and pulled my weight, so now is the time for ME," or "i dont have much life left, so i should do my best to help others
2007-07-01 03:24:47 · answer #7 · answered by messenjah82 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I have some senior citizen friends and they do go to vegas but they only play the nickel and dime machines and only for a certain # of times and then they move to another one.
2007-07-01 04:21:11 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why not? Where does it say casinos are only for a certain age group? It is a totally harmless form of enjoyment. Let them be.
2007-07-01 15:50:21 · answer #9 · answered by Traveller 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Time in our day and dice in our hands and nothing to do but roll baby. Its called retirement, live it up! We should leave it to our ungrateful kids? Let them get it the old fashioned way like we did, earn it.
2007-07-01 11:02:11 · answer #10 · answered by Ray T 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋