I have always wanted to place a bet on the General Election and this time I was detirminded to do so, as I have never placed a bet before in my life.
In my childhood the local betting shop had blacked out windows with drunk men spilling out and the old fashioned (now) multi coloured fly trap in the door way plus my parents aversion to betting always stopped me betting which is no bad thing I have never even played the fruit machines in pubs, so grateful I have never taken up this vice.
I asked my work colleague Nicky Fulton to help me to the place the bet as I did not have a clue what to do.
So we arranged to go at lunch time to the Corals Betting shop at the Netherfield Local Centre, inside it was quite pleasant full of men filling in their betting slips with a number of TV sets on the wall with various matches and races on, I got myself and wrote out two betting slips with Nicky Fulton coaching me on what to right down, for five pounds each for a win for Dr Phyllis Starkey in Milton Keynes South and Andrew Pakes for Milton Keynes North.
Once I got to the cashier she looked through her screen which also had a screen on the wall in her booth which showed what she was looking through for the betting odds for both constituencies, only Milton Keynes North came up so could only bet on Andrew a guy was impatient with me holding things up so he asked if he could quickly place his bet which I was happy to oblige.
I thought she gave the impression that she could not be bothered to try and get Milton Keynes South up on the screen but later on I was proved wrong.
Nicky rang her partner as he is a Manager for Coral's in Bletchley to find out why I could not bet on Phyllis, he told her that due to the tightening of the polls all bets were off until Coral's could decide what odds to put on.
Still glad to have got round to placing my first bet in this General Election.
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