Recently, My Love and I went to Atlantic City to celebrate my birthday. It was a lovely, warm spring day. I have no pictures to share because I didn't bring a camera. All day long we took one picture with a phone.
We got to town early in the day and parked the car at the Borgata. We wandered about the casino for a little while familiarizing ourselves with our new surroundings. We spectated some table games and then found our way to a few slot machines. We lost a little. We won a little. I ended up printing a $20 voucher for the same $20 I put into the machine a half hour before. It was pretty mello, but I was glad I didn't lose anything.
We decided to head over to the boardwalk. On our way out of the casino, I decided to play the $20 voucher in a $1 slot machine. For someone like me, this is the equivalent to the high roller table. But, it was my birthday, I had $20 burning a hole in my pocket, and Kenny Rodgers "The Gambler" was playing over the PA system. After losing $5 I was ready to stop, but My Love reminded me that it was my birthday and I had already planned on leaving that $20 in a machine at some point.
Two rounds later... Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding!
I won $77. I grinned from ear to hear. My Love took my picture. It's a picture that will stay private simply because we don't have to share it.
Other than that one picture, we didn't concern ourselves at all with how anything would look or how it would sound to anyone else. We just plain had fun. At one point, I checked my phone and responded to a text message. My Love actually took my phone out of my hands and said, "It can wait." He was right. It waited. No one perished because of it.
I didn't realize how disconnected for individual moments I've become by hiding behind a camera or a phone. It was a good reminder to leave the camera at home and turn the phone off a little more often.
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