I had been driving through Nevada when I stopped at a truck stop with a mini casino attached. I went in to take a look, and it had the normal slot machines and video poker. I was about to go back to my truck when I noticed that one of the machines was only 1 cent, so I figured, why not. Only a penny, no big loss. So I drop in a penny, turn the dial, and out comes this little round token. A red one.
I looked around the room to see if they had some sort of chart explaining the values of the tokens, but didn't see one. I kind of figured it wouldn't be worth much, but I was feeling lucky, so I dropped another penny into the machine. Out comes another token, this time a blue one. I thought, "Cool," and tried again. Another red token.
I stayed at the machine for a while, until I had to get back on the road to keep my delivery schedule, bit by then I had gone through almost $20 and had a plastic grocery bag just about full of those tokens, mostly red and blue, but some green and purple and even a few yellow.
I took my bag to the cashier cage, and said to the woman working there that they should really put up a sign saying what the value of each of those tokens was. She looked at my bag, then looked back at me and said, "Sir, those are gumballs."
