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Fun And Games

I'm not sure, but I think my daughter has a gambling problem. No, not my sweet innocent 12-year old. It’s the six-year old girl I'm worried about. I learned of this today when we visited a local Dave & Buster's, basically the love child of Chuck E. Cheese and Caesar's Palace. There were more games being played there than a sorority house during rush week. My daughter and I jumped from machine to machine before she finally settled on the game that combines coins and magnets, while gobbling up your tokens. For those of you who have been sucked in by this money machine, you know what I am talking about. If not, it goes a little something like this... Insert a coin. It lands on a metal surface and if you are really lucky, your coin pushes the coin in front of it to the point where eventually there are coins that fall down into your pocket. In reality, the magnets keep you from winning anything significant. Insert another coin. At Dave & Buster's, you...