Most Expensive Piss Ever
A long story short, I was in a pub in Ireland that sold scratch cards at the bar and I was queuing up to get a drink and some scratch cards. I left the queue as I really needed to piss and when I returned, someone else had joined the line and taken my place and I was now standing behind them. Turns out he was the guy sitting at the table beside us and we were chatting to him for a while, so we continued to in the queue. All is fine. Anyway, we got our drinks and scratch cards and sat down. A few minutes later he taps me on the shoulder and asks me to check his card, saying that he thinks his eyes are playing tricks on him. I do, and right enough, there are three 50,000 symbols on the card. He cheers, stands up on the chair and exclaims his good fortune to the bar, everyone cheers for him and he buys everyone in the bar a drink to celebrate. I sit there, smiling and wishing him well through gritted teeth. That was the most expensive piss I ever took. Damn my bladder the size of a grape. Why couldn't it be the size of a Terry's Chocolate Orange?
(Paddy2, Fri 4 Apr 2014, 11:01, 6 replies)

You should've just pissed in your mouth.

( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Fri 4 Apr 2014, 19:00, closed)

If you hadn't gone for a piss the cards would be in a different order.
... or not. Or a bomb would have gone off maiming you whilst sparing everyone in the toilet.
Either way there is nothing saying that had you not gone to the toilet you would have won. That's false logic as the universe doesn't work like that.
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Sun 6 Apr 2014, 12:07, closed)

They were on a roll in a plastic stack, just like the National Lottery ones are in the UK and there is only one brand of scratch card for sale in the bar. It's a cert that I would have got that card if I'd have stayed in the queue. I'm not bitter, (I was briefly after at the time) but screw it. It wasn't meant to be. :)
(Paddy2, Sun 6 Apr 2014, 17:01, closed)

No, it's not "a cert" you would have got that card.
You going to the toilet was just one of billions of events that happened leading up to somebody winning and none of those events were predicated upon any other. You happened to experience a certain chain of events which included the cards in that order and you going to the toilet. That doesn't mean that the only reason you didn't win was that choice.
When it comes to things like blown dates and job interviews it's a little less clear cut as there are things other than chance involved and you can usually stack the odds but with games of pure chance absolutely nothing you have done has in any way influenced the game or your odds of winning.
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Mon 7 Apr 2014, 7:12, closed)

I bet you're real fun at parties...!
(Paddy2, Mon 7 Apr 2014, 14:19, closed)

Sorry, not trying to piss on your chips with the story.
Just trying to disabise you of the notion that you should feel your actions in any way cost you money.
I was going more for "don't regret what you can't control" than picking holes in the story.
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Mon 7 Apr 2014, 18:04, closed)