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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pub prizesare the best when they come from your mates.
a mate of mine was singing at my local a few years ago and the bar manager thought it'd be a grand idea to offer prizes of free drinks and shit along those lines in mystery envelopes. there were three other major prizes as well. 26 inch colour tv, free breakfasts in the restaurant every day for a year, and a free jug of beer everyday for a year.
over the next few weeks, i won a few goodies, tshirts with pub name on it, a few free beers. all good so far.
then the bar man said to me, the boss has just put the first big prize in with the usual lot tonight. free beer for a year was what i was after. some other lucky bastard won it but crikey i wanted that one. next week i was lucky enough to win the free breakfast for a year, but as i don't eat breakfast (never up in time) it was a waste.
but bugger me with a wet fish, the guy who won the free beer came up to me and asked if i wanted to swap prizes. hell yes i said. apparantly he only drinks burbon and would rather have had a free feed.
result.
so as i'm merrily sucking down free beer everyday after work, the next week was my mates last week at the pub singing and all the remainder of the prizes had to be given out. guess who won the tv that night. yes, me. free beer, free tv and a hangover later i considered myself the luckiest guy in the village.
6 years ago now. haven't won a thing since.
(, Wed 20 Sep 2006, 4:21, Reply)
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