Today I made a cool five cents with minimal effort. All I had to do was drive back to the Mac store and return earbuds that were purchased 30 days earlier. I'm sure it didn't cover the gas but I'll take it. Apparently the sales tax on April 12 was five cents less than it was today. Go figure!
It's rather pathetic how much this made me smile but I am rarely graced with fortuitous events. My father has won a television and a stereo, yet the Calgary Stampede dream home still eludes him. The last time I can remember winning anything was a cake during the cake walk at my elementary school fair (along with half the school). I'm not quite sure why I still get that flutter of anticipation when tickets are being drawn. It's never my ticket, it's never my name and yet, I have that faint hope... only to feel the excitement drain out of my body. The winner smiles and his/her friend says "Man, you always win something." It seems to me that there are two kinds of people: prize winners and non-prize winners. There has to be a lucky gene just waiting to be coded by scientists.
The question is... are you feeling lucky?
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Was this post in honour of Lindsay Lohan? I think what her next movie is about.
I'm unlucky myself. It's annoying because every once in awhile I get a strong feeling that I am going to win a lottery. So I have to go and buy a ticket (which is not something I usually do) and then I'm actually honestly surprised when I don't win.
ewww, i strongly dislike the LL.
maybe that's satan tempting you. ha ha ha.
there are people out there who make a living out of entering contests. it's almost like a full-time job for them, and they go on trips all the time and their garages are full of bikes.
A friend of mine enters contests all the time. There are websites devoted to listing contests. She doesn't make a living off of it, but man, she wins a lot of stuff. And a lot of it is weird random stuff. She won a year's supply of that Laughing Cow cheese, which was hilarious. She was offering to send all of her friends cheese every month.
I think she also won a lawn tractor, which she sold. I suppose if you have the time and don't mind junk mail and spam, it's a good way to go.
aisy, you should've written that:
are you feeling lucky, punk?
i don't have a particularly lucky streak either. however, this spring i won the office college basketball pool. that has a lot amount of luck, but it also has to do with picking the right schools. but then again, there are probably 20 teams that could win it on any given year.
i won $150 bucks though, so that was pretty sweet. but it wasn't like a hat out of the bag thing
on my 18th birthday i made a half court shot for $100 dollars. it was in the form of a savings bond. i have no idea what happened to it. wish i had that money now. ; )
"maybe that's satan tempting you. ha ha ha."
this made me laugh really hard. there is no lottery in alaska, but when i worked at the record store in portland we used to buy the scratch it tickets to see how long you could go in a week off a $1 ticket.
i never, i mean never went longer than that first ticket, but my pals adam, rob and isaiah went for days, sometimes week. call it what you will, but that's kind of lucky.
i can throw a wadded up napkin in almost any water glass. a skill you say? hardly, it borders on a dance with the divine.
finally, i'm a kick ass croquet player and the things is i don't even try. that's my secret, i don't try and then i always win. that's pretty lucky.
and you know what. if that's all the luck i have, i'm ok with it.
I don´t have that lucky gene I think, I always loose at cards. I have won a lottery once though 100.000.- Icelandic kronur. which was about 1700 us dollars at the time. I bought an airplane ticket to Canada. I actually had a dream about poop and went to buy a lottery ticket because an old lady at work said that poop=money, and I won. Had not won anything else before that or the 11 years since.
dani, you'll have to let me know more about that scheming.
mr. p, did you pay your tithes ;)
ryan, those are some pretty cool skills/luck. who knew alaska had no lottery. that's probably a good thing.
dagga, you sound like a visionary woman. dreams that come true are pretty sweet.
poop = money? wow i should be really rich then because i dream about changing daipers all night long. I do it all day long and there is no escaping... i tried being a professional contest entry techincian once but it got boring really fast. you have to enter you name address & phonenumber for hours and hours. I never won anything.
My daughters are fascinated with draws and raffles. At a recent gun show they made me enter a raffle for a Benelli shotgun. I tried to explain to them that the odds are never good but they insisted. They were pretty miffed when Art Hanger (a local Member of Parliament) drew someone else's name. They truly felt that I had been cheated, as if I somehow deserved to win. I told them it was their fault that I was four dollars poorer and that they would have to repay me. They said it was my choice to buy the raffle ticket. ...They're also fascinated with the t.v. game show Family Feud. We were talking the other day about how some people spend thousands of dollars on their sick pets and I told them we could never afford to do that if our dog was injured or sick. They suggested instead of putting her down we could all go on Family Feud and win the money. If life were like that...
Once I one a mini-fridge in a random drawing. That's the last time I can remember winning something along those lines. I wish I wasn't obsessed with filling out the forms that accompany those kinds of contests, but I am. There's something to be said about that feeling that rises from the stomach to the throat that tells you, "Maybe. You never know ..."
One. Won. Whatever.
It's late, I'm in Vegas and I have yet to try my luck at the nickel slots. I rarely even win at those, so blackjack and poker aren't even possibilities in my world.
Dainon...
try the Price is Right slots. My college roommate would go to San Diego from Provo every now and then, would stop in LV and put a few bucks worth in the Price is Right. He ALWAYS won enough for gas money to and from. Maybe that was just his luck. But, you never know.
And, if you end up losing, I'm not going to pay you back. It's your choice to put those coins in there...
ted, your story reminded me a bit of when avery (mskaz's lovely daughter) wanted to play that game where you try to pick up a toy with the claw. we tried to tell her it was a cheating game but she wanted to try anyway. she was exhausted already, and when she didn't win she was distraught and crying about it being a cheating game. ah joys! tell brit and teigs that family feud rocks.
dainon, a mini fridge? that's actually pretty sweet. you could have your own minibars like hotels.
We're still watching that TV dad won - the big one is still in the shop, but to give you an idea of how lame and ancient it is, there's no place to plug in a VCR or DVD player. We rarely ever win anything, but it's fun to dream.... This week, I entered a Mothers Day contest at the local grocery store to win a spa weekend - now that would be sweet!
I guess in answer to your question - are you feeling lucky - I really am, because I have pretty amazing kids and grandkids. What more can I ask for on Mothers day? (Cue the violins)
awww, aisy's mum has to be the cutest mum in the world! seriously, i don't know who she is but i can tell i'd really, really, really love her. i bet she has amazing culinary skills and that she always listens. i bet she speaks kind of funny but has the coolest hair for a mum.
(and hasn't that tv been in the shop for ages?)
I won U2 concert tickets on my birthday last year. I also have won a raffle for a stereo. That is pretty much it though.
Well, I guess I won a door prize once when I was dragged to a candle party. Although I would have felt more lucky had I not won the smelly candle.
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