How much time did you spend in nature this week? Is time in nature important to you? (Prompt courtesy: https://thecoffeemonsterzco.com/en-ca/blogs/midnight-blogging/journaling-prompts)
I didn’t really spend any time in nature itself but I was out in the wild last night, the wild that is the Legion Hall for Meat Draw and Chase the Ace.
I realize that’s about as Canadian/rural/? remote sounding as it gets but hey, it’s almost all we got.
I hesitantly agreed to this, (half) a night out on the town about a week ago. Meat draw. This is actually what people do for entertainment and socialization. It starts early, to get a seat you need to be there by 5 pm. The place was packed.
What’s a meat draw you ask? You buy strips of tickets and the Legion Hall members/employees do six draws for each strip of tickets and what you’re trying to win is meat. Seriously. I went home with a whole chicken! One of my tickets was drawn.
Now I really had no idea how this all worked before I got there. I had been one time before but probably close to ten years ago. And for some reason I don’t even recall the experience.
It’s an interesting atmosphere. A bar scene-ish, alcohol beverages are being sold, people are playing the slot machines that line the walls. People are laughing, joking and visiting and it’s very very loud.
Yet all the lights are on and there’s absolutely no music playing. It’s so bizarre.
On top of the meat draw there’s Chase the Ace. The pot was over $35 000. Chase the Ace involves buying strips of tickets and in just one draw, you hope they call one of your ticket numbers, at which time you go up to the front and pick a card. There were 18 cards left, there’s one less each week and the pot grows if nobody claims it. The card you need to pick is the ace of spades. And then bam, $35 000 in your pocket.
I spent $90 and went home with a chicken. It was wild.
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