text: I've lived in the same house pretty much all my life. We moved when I was five and, now at eighteen, I still live here with my parents. Since we've been living here for so long, some things just go wrong and sometimes with no explanation. On one morning, my mom went to take a shower and noticed the water wouldn't get hot. And she absolutely cannot take cold showers. She asked my dad if he could fix it and he didn't find anything wrong. Like I said, sometimes things break with no explanation. My dad looked up a guy online and asked him to fix it. We had never heard of this guy, but he had good reviews and we were kind of desperate. The guy came, took one look at it and asked my dad for money to buy an expensive thing to fix it. He said a bunch of technical therms I won't bother to look up, the point was that he needed more money. My parents paid him. He said he would fix it in two days. On the first day, he didn't come. My dad called him, he said he was busy and would fix it tomorrow. Tomorrow arrives and he doesn't show up. Again, my dad called him and got the same answer. One week went by and we just stopped hearing from him entirely. My parents called their lawyer and, as of today 03/29/2020, we're still trying to sue him. He gave us a fake adress so we wouldn't find him. But this story has somewhat of a good ending. You see, my dad loves poker. He tried to teach it to me several times so we could play together (I'm more of a Rummy type of gal). When he's feeling down, he goes to his local poker club and just plays until he either lost all his buy in money (usually 50 bucks, nothing too big) or is too tired. And he's good. Really good. After this whole thing was over and we thought we would never see the guy ever again, my dad went to the poker club. And, because God tries to be funny once in a while, he ran into the same fucker that scammed us. The guy even had the audacity to tell my dad he would stop by our house the next day and fix our damn heater. My dad told me that he thinks his anger turned him into an even better player than before. Remember when I mentioned that the buy in was only 50 bucks? Well, the scammer went all in and my dad got all his chips. He went all in again after the rebuy and lost another round to my dad. This continued to happen for the rest of the night. My dad went in with 50 bucks and got out with more than a thousand, all from the guy who scammed us. Now, I understand this story is hard to believe. But my dad swears it's true. His poker buddies confirmed to me that it happened, just not as quickly as my dad made it seem. The game started at seven pm and my dad only left the table at three in the morning. But, even after hearing this story several times over the last year, I still don't know how to play.