Kerching!

Categories: uncategorized

Date: 06 February 2007 22:26:25

Today I won on both the fruit machine and the scratchcards.

OK, not technically true, it's a running joke at work. The scratchcards are actually bus tickets which we can take with us when we're going out of the office on work business. Each one is only valid for one day, and to show which day you are using them on, you have to scratch off the correct day of the week, date, month and year. So, of course, whenever we scratch off the right combination, we "win" a day's free travel on the buses. I have to go out tomorrow, so I collected a ticket today and - would you believe it? - I won again!!! Woohoo!!!

And the fruit machine? That's the ticket machine at the train station. I don't like to use notes in it, but I had to a couple of weeks ago when I only had a £20 on me and the guy at the kiosk had no change. As £17.80 in small change clunked down to the bottom of the machine, one coin at a time, I felt like I'd just won a huge amount on a pub fruit machine and everyone was watching me (given the amount of noise it was making, it's safe to say just about everyone there actually was looking at me). Today was a smaller win - only £2.80 - but coupled with the scratchcard, I think I can safely say it's been a good day for me on the pretend gambling front...