“The big cop who collared me at the blowoff.”
“How did you happen to horn in on that?”
“I didn’t. I walked in and won a jackpot.”
He said, “You weren’t dumb enough to tap a nickel machine when the ten-cent and two-bit machines were all ripe, were you?”
I said, “I had nickels so I played nickels.”
I saw that he was studying me with a puzzled look on his face.
“Did you take out a phoney rivet and leave it out?”
I said, “I don’t know about any phoney rivets. I put in nickels and didn’t win anything until a couple of cherries showed up. The next time I hit the jackpot right on the nose.”
“Then what?”
“Then the attendant moved over, and we started arguing.”