Category Archives: Bet On Crazy

Snow in Spring NYC 2010

March 22, 2025 – 10:58 am

JoJo, the security guard at the diamond exchange, was a betting man. He gambled the left-overs from his monthly NYPD pension on baseball, basketball, and football. His losses outweighed his wins. JoJo also wagered on odd parlays and on March 1st in 2010 I said that there wouldn’t be another snowstorm. Two days ago the […]

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QUEEN OF THE PLAZA March 17 2009

March 17, 2025 – 7:46 am

St. Patrick’s Day promised to be another disaster for the Retail Collection of the Plaza Hotel. Hordes of green-clad spectators streamed down the escalator into the basement. Their eyes averted the luxury goods on offer, as their destination was the hotel’s public bathroom. Within the first hour I had given directions to the toilet over […]

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Toujours Siam

February 16, 2025 – 2:45 am

From 2011 Thirty-five years ago I sold a 5-FSI1 Round Brilliant Diamond to a woman from Florida. She was purchasing the ring for her mother. When asked to ship the present to Miami Beach via Fedex, my boss refused to accommodate the woman’s request, fearing the diamond might get lost in transit. The customer was […]

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St. Valentine’s Day Massacre / BET ON CRAZY by Peter Nolan Smith

February 14, 2025 – 4:18 am

Every Valentine’s Day diamond dealers and jewelers on 47th Street anticipated a winter spending spree by lovers for their loved ones, but each year of the 21st Century the sales numbers dropped drastically, as the economic downturn cut into everyone’s surplus, but the rich. Valentine afternoon in February 2011 shoppers crammed the chocolatiers along 5th […]

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BET ON CRAZY / Betting Super Bowl XXIV

February 1, 2025 – 2:28 am

For years Richie Boy and I bet the Super Bowl according to the Manny Principle, which was that Manny had never beaten the spread for the NFL’s final game. Accordingly we always bet the other way. In 1996 the championship game matched the Dallas Cowboys against the Pittsburgh Steelers in Tempe, Arizona. All week Googs, […]

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