seconds before his return flight home at an airport video poker machine near his departure gate, he had won a six-thousand-dollar jackpot. Although he boarded the plane and flew home, upon arrival at the midwestern airport he found he could not stand to be in possession of his winnings—they weighed on him as an intolerable excess. “I couldn’t handle that I had left with that money. I wasn’t through yet. I had to lose it all. Return the money. That’s exactly what I did—I flew right back and returned the money to the machines.”
