This
isn’t about the World Cup this is about how to influence the results of matches
quite significantly! This is not about horse racing just about getting the results you want. This is
not about what time the bin men come it’s about what time they have come
before.
Two
months ago I bet on the top 3 teams in the World Cup. Say no more, Mexico 3rd
– gone!! Brazil v Argentina in final – no longer possible, Brazil to win – gone
home – oh sorry already home! Ok it was always a long shot so when Mexico went
out I had the double Brazil and Argentina in final and Brazil to win 1- 0!! I’m
guessing last night’s result doesn’t allow that to happen!! Betting shop bet
for Brazil last night to win 2 – 0 and as I was leaving the betting shop I
noticed a poster 7/1 on Mueller scoring first – I laughed all the way home, ha
ha I thought some people will fall for anything, who bets on stuff like that?
Who scored first? Need I say more!!
I’m
sure you know all the stories about horse racing but the one I fall for every
time is when as happens in the UK a race falls to 7 runners the pay out is only
on 1st and 2nd, I bet on a horse each way in a race with
8 or more runners and my chosen horse comes 3rd!! Ok you don’t win a
fortune but if it’s good odds you may just about get your money back. Except in
the meantime there has been one non runner and a withdrawn horse!! You get your
ticket scanned and the happy smiling face that took your money hours before is
now fit to bursting with laughter, “Sorry there’s nothing on that!” Funny how
you know all your protestations only make you look stupider by the minute but
you still do!! I have used a bit of poetic license in that by the way. They
never laugh or smile in Ladbrokes!!
So
single guy lives in a flat and historically has become the only one that
bothers with the rubbish, wheelie bin emptying schedule etc. My council in its
infinite wisdom has decided that every other week all 3 types of bin are
collected on the same day, by three separate trucks!! No bother I put them all out and bring them
all back so efficiently that my neighbours don’t even realize that it isn’t the
rubbish fairy does it! (I don’t actually believe in the rubbish fairy myself –
obviously no fairies are rubbish!!!) To make it more exciting for myself, on past
performance I will predict to myself what times the trucks will appear and empty
the bins!! Sad yes but it’s only a bit of fun – or is it? The 1st
two sets of bins will be collected within the hours of 9 and 10 the other set
will be between 11 and 11.30, that was my prediction for Monday!!
Here
are the times – without a word of a lie – that the three separate trucks
arrived, 8.50; 10.05 & 11.35.
Yes
I know that makes me a rubbish tipster and a god awful comedian!! I just came
up with that last line now – clever? Bet it’s not!!
The
moral to this story is obviously to get me to place a bet for you on the exact
opposite of what you want the outcome to be and you will probably win!
Some
of you may know I do mystery shopping, which is usually mystery dining,
yesterday though I got to an assignment, yes that is what they are called, and realized
that I couldn’t complete it because of my T shirt!!
A
staff member used to work as a bar person for this pub restaurant chain, a long
time ago but I do tell a slight whiteish lie about whether anybody in my immediate
family does or has worked for them! I do also make a specific point not ever to
choose all the local ones, where they worked or where any of the staff that I
know may be. So I was already out and about and I got a phone call, “Instead of
that so and so, could you do that so and so.” No problem – more or less the
same location but more money – win win you would think? Lovely day weather wise
and I was only wearing a T shirt – oh by that I mean, no coat or jumper!! Got
all the way to the site, walked in and quickly walked right out again!! During
the staff member’s time with the company he would occasionally get T shirts to
wear and those would occasionally end up in my wardrobe because I always wear T
shirts I guess! So yesterday’s T shirt chosen completely at random was for the
companies annual beer festival of a few years ago, that was incidentally only
available to staff!!
Epic
fail!!
A
hurried phone call and a lie about public transport, sorry Arriva I blamed one
of your buses, and it was rearranged for tomorrow unfortunately I can only
claim the transport cost back once but that will teach me to wear company
specific T shirts won’t it?!!
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