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To: BWAC who wrote (36286)	7/26/2005 2:25:26 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

My second job was at a Pizza Hut across from the University of Texas in Austin. The manager/franchise owner, an degenerate gambler named Mac, taught me pizza economics. I made a large supreme pizza, and he told me that it cost him 34 cents. We sold it for about five bucks. (this was in 1969) I learned a lot from Mac. He ran floating poker games where he fleeced frat boys. One of his tricks was the "shiner". It was wedding band he wore with a flat spot on the palm side. He could deal a hand of cards and know every hand by seeing each card's reflection as he dealt. Mac would occasionally get into serious poker games where he couldn't cheat. He'd blow into the pizza place, clean out my register, and then blast out, cursing.