Randomness (no, not you specifically, but hello)

[redbird]

One of my coworkers runs a Super Bowl pool. She encourages people to participate whether or not they follow or understand football. It's set up so that knowing more about the game doesn't actually help: prizes are given for matching the last digits of the scores at various points, and the numbers you're matching with are assigned at random.

For vague social reasons, I participated last year, and won nothing, and decided to play again this year. I handed the organizer my money (she was pleased not to have to make change), wrote my name in a box, and didn't think much about it.

I came in yesterday and found that my numbers had matched the third-quarter score, so I have won $100 on my $10 bet. This feels like free money; I probably should not spend it all on chocolate.

Comments

[wild_irises]

You should, however, probably spend a good percentage of it on chocolate.

[treadpath.livejournal.com]

YAY! That rocks! Surprise money is so nice. :)

[daharyn.livejournal.com]

I'd go for the chocolate, myself. I mean, unless you have urgent priorities, I think free money feels more like free money when it is put towards pleasurable things. And you have 2 good memories too -- the money and the chocolate (or whatever. I would probably buy shoes, but that's just because I have *cough* a bit of a problem, called "obsessive love of footwear").

[redbird]

If I had a plausible source, I'd spend it all on purple shirts. (Plausible meaning having something I like that fits and is a little more interesting than the 4-for-10-dollars solid-color t-shirts I get down in the Village.) As Cattitude notes, I'm pretty well supplied with chocolate; I haven't even opened the sun-dried-tomato chocolate bar I brought home from Montreal.

[cattitude.livejournal.com]

Only because we have enough chocolate right now.

[baratron.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

I think US $100 worth of chocolate would be excessive for most purposes. But how about spending it on books? :)

I'll be interested to hear what it eventually gets spent on.