The Leprechaun

Las Vegas strip 8:00 am March 17 1992.

My wife and I were vacationing on our 6 month anniversary.
We were heading to the Imperial palace Emperors breakfast buffet when a strange little man walked out of O'Sheas Casino.

He was wearing all green garb with a green hat. and pantaloons. He was carrying an Irish whiskey in a glass mug

He had red hair.

We thought he looked a little odd so we walked faster. He caught up to us and said in a perfect Irish Brogue, "Ahh I see we have newlyweds here. It warms me heart to see a lovely couple such as yourselves."

We were nervous and suspicious of this strange man but we were polite and said thank you.

He reached into his pocket and pulled out a wad of 100 dollar bills about 10 inches thick. The man in the green suit flipped through the bills and said. The luck of the Irish smiles upon me this morn, I just won this money and tipped my cocktail waitress $1000.

We told him congratulations.

I was kind of freaked out and nervous. I went to cross the street. He put a hand on my shoulder and said "watch out me lad." just as a car whizzed by. It would had flattened me.

My wife and I looked up to thank the stranger for saving my life but he was gone.

Disappeared. We looked in every direction and there was no sign of him Poof.

Part of me was wondering if it was a dream or hallucination but my wife was right there the whole time and she confirmed that it really did happen.

After that we won quite a bit of money. I think his luck rubbed off on us.

I know you are supposed to catch the leprechaun and get his gold but I'm 90% Irish myself and I really didn't feel like testing the supernatural that morning.