"Something like this happens only once in a lifetime"
It's not as much the freeness but the lucky circumstances surrounding this that make me still want to cry about 2 weeks later!

T'was a Tuesday. A day of rest for myself from the labours of uni (but when only in 2x2 hours a week most days are) but a group presentation was due for the next day. Being the good guy I am I decide to take the commute into Glasgow anyway and meet up with the rest.

The previous Friday news reached me of Lee Evans playing at the Glasgow SECC. So I decide it would be best to go get tickets as well before meeting the group.

As I walk out the SECC, £120 cash spent I get a text about a cash machine in Glasgow Central station paying out double.

Runs does I to the train, gets it in and am greeted by a big queue. Nonetheless I stand in it (along with 3 other mates who all got the same text) and finally reach the front.

I had taken out £120 on the tickets already so was limited to £180 so plumped for that and got this.



£360 lovely pounds.

I put it back into my account after dealing with the presentation and now - about 3 weeks later - nothing has happened and I'm actually beginning to believe I may get to keep it!

So I got a free £180 as I was in Glasgow a day I normally wouldn't, and being about a 10 minutes train ride from the station at the right time. Luck? Or God loving me?

....and I got Lee Evans tickets :-D
(puggs, Sat 10 Nov 2007, 8:51, 4 replies)

lucky
This happens every now and then. Seemingly some kind of internal problem with the machine, ie it thinks it has a box full of tenners, when they are really twenties, so you get double payout.
Never happened to me though :(
(dave likes cheese, Sat 10 Nov 2007, 10:12, closed)

Dammit
Always read of this thing - never had it happen to me (or anywhere near).

Then where am I when it finally happens, not only in my city, but very near to my old job?

I've fucking moved to another country!!!

Gutted

PS - far as I know, they won't take any action. Their fault, can't do anything
(bamboozled Can hear you getting fatter, Sat 10 Nov 2007, 12:40, closed)

But it's all in that funny foreign money!
Not like good, Christian English money.
(Seance Trumpet has got no beef with a man enjoying a croissant, Mon 12 Nov 2007, 16:28, closed)

No, no...
...£180 is about the going rate of compensation for having to watch Lee Evans - pretty impressive that the ATM knew what the money was for, though.
(misanthrope is so adjective he's verbing nouns!, Tue 13 Nov 2007, 13:17, closed)