Unexpected Good FortuneTravelling through Seattle a good 15 years ago, I remembered an old friend I used to blow up Action Men with. We were bored, nothing to lose , so I looked him up in the phonebook. He was the only one of that name in there. "Come and stay," goes he.
Me and my mates were living in a car at that point so a bed was a novelty. After searching for a while, we rock up to a very posh mansion on Puget Sound with its own Helipad. "Come flying," goes he.
Has your luck held out recently?
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chthonic, Thu 14 Sep 2006, 18:43)
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One day many years agoI was broke, with a young child, and I had only £2, from which I needed to buy enough food to last a couple of days.
This wasn't so hard back then - 6 eggs, a loaf, a pint of milk and a banana would've done it.
However, at the supermarket entrance I noticed a scratchcard booth. Throwing caution to the winds, I impulsively invested 50% of my available capital, and won a tenner.
We bought proper food AND yogurt AND fruit AND a comic, and even went home on the bus instead of trudging through the rain.
I was so scared of becoming a compulsive gambler that I never bought another scratchie.
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