Creating child gamblers............

     I take my boys out a lot. We go bowling, roller skating, arcades, the movies, etc. It seems like everywhere we go, they have this quarters game for the kids. They play it by putting a quarter in and it is supposed to go behind the other quarters and this bar comes and pushes all of the quarters towards the front ledge. If your quarter lands in just the right spot, it will push the other quarters over the ledge and they come out of the front as your winnings. They also put random bills in there on top of the quarters from $1 to $50. Of course that is what the kids go for every time. The boys bring their own quarters and will put one in. They usually will get one or two quarters back and they put them right back in the machine. Even if they win $5 in quarters they can't put them back into the machine fast enough, frantically trying to get the bills. This to me is like gambling at a Casino. After they loose all of their quarters they beg for more, one more time, one more time. It makes me wonder: who's idea was this?