It was the day I bought a lottery ticket. It was a problem because\nI was in a coffee shop and I had no change. So I said to the lady, \u2018If I give\nyou a lottery ticket, I will come back with the change.\u2019 <\/p>\n\n\n\n
She said, \u2018If you win, you pay me then. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2018No,\u2019 I said, \u2018because if I win, you can have half because I\u2019m\npaying you for my coffee with a ticket, so you own that for the moment.\u2019 I went and got money, I paid her for the\ncoffee, and I had the ticket back. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
She said, \u2018So if you win,\ndo I still get half?\u2019 <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
\u2018Not now because I paid you, but if I win I will come in for\na coffee and you can have somewhere\nabout two hundred thousand pounds,\u2019 I joked. She said OK, so I went to town and\nI bought another ticket, and I went in a coffee shop. And I said, \u2018We can share\nhalf if we win.\u2019 I said, \u2018I will get this \nIn writing, so it will be legal before Saturday.\u2019 Anyway I went to get the legal agreement, but he was away ill\nso I could not get in time. So I went in\nto tell her, but she had gone home early for a house-warming party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Anyway the lottery\ncame on and it was the number on the ticket that I had said I would share. But\nit was off, because it was not legal. The next day I went in, she had a big\nsmile on her face saying we won, but I told it was not legal because the guy\nwas off. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
She said, \u2018you can still give me half because you said yes I\ncould.\u2019 \n\nWell with nothing down, you can get nothing. I\nleft her sobbing. I felt bad so I said, \u2018Come\nover after work, I will give you a bit.\u2019 She came over and I said she could\nhave her half. Like I said, \u2018I am sorry\nI could not live with myself so we\u2019re friends.\u2019 She said, \u2018Friends but I do not\nwant the two hundred thousand. But that ticket did not win. You won the raffle,\none million pounds. \u2018Ok,\u2019 I said, \u2018it was\nnumbers not the raffle.\u2019 So I was very pleased with the money\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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