If the following story wasn’t so sad, it would almost be laughable. Last week, a Canadian guy headed off to a Newfoundland convenience store to buy himself his weekly $10 lottery ticket. He asked the clerk to print the ticket but he who accidentally printed off a $27 instead. The clerk apologized and asked the guy if he wanted to stick with the printed ticket, or have him cancel it and re-issue a $10 ticket as he had asked. The guy opted to cancel the expensive ticket and take the cheaper one instead. And… yep… you guessed it… the cancelled $27 ticket later turned out to have the winning numbers that would have made our guy $30 million richer!
I know I’ve told you this joke before, but it seemed so appropriate that I’m repeating it again: John’s business is sputtering along, his wife is set to leave him and the bank has threatened to foreclose on his house. John prays to God and begs him: “Please Lord, let me win the lottery.” The next day – no lottery win. The bank sends its final warning. John’s wife packs her bags. John is desperate. He prays again: “Please Lord, what is a few million to you? Please let me win the lottery tomorrow.” The next day – again, no lottery win. The bank throws John out his home, his wife leaves. John throws himself on the floor and howls, “Lord, Lord, why have you forsaken me? I need to win the lottery!!!” That night, John goes to bed and in his dream, the Lord appears before him and says: “John, man, meet me halfway here – BUY A DAMN LOTTERY TICKET!”
