So I went bowling today and had one awesome round. I sucked ass in the first round with a score of only 88, but in my second round, I made a daunting 196. I was just trying to break 150 because I started off a bit poorly, but I managed to get 6 strikes and a spare in my last 4 frames (3 being in the 10th frame) so that was pretty fuckin' sweet.

Now I knew that something had to go wrong to ruin my day and it was just waiting to happen. The bowling alley has this machine that conveniently looks like a replica of any change machine that you'll see anywhere else. The only thing is, to the left of it (about 2 feet away) there's this lottery machine. Now, I know this is a ploy by management for two reasons:

1. The writing that displayed "this machine does not give change" is written in fine print and,

2. right on the lottery machine, it says, "management is not responsible for any money lost".

How convenient of them to screw innocent people over who are careless (stupid?) enough to not read all of that and lose money, essentially, to the bloody machine.

Well, I put in 10 bucks and suffice it to say, it didn't give my money back. I was pissed. And it's not about just losing 10 bucks; it's the basic principle of being swindled by management, combined with my own carelessness.

So I was mad and wanted to just bolt out of there, but I decide to punch in every random $1.00 lottery ticket that was there, and some $.50 ones as well. Eventually I had like 12-14 tickets or so. The problem was that all these tickets were like those fucking safeway ones that you get after you buy some groceries. So fucking cheap they are.

So yeah...we go through a bunch of them and as expected, they were all shit. Then a friend of mine picked one up and said these distinct words, " I have a feeling about this one".

Now the odds go like this:

1/4 chance to win a dollar
1/10 chance to win 2 dollars
1/20 chance to win 5 dollars
1/50 chance to win 10 dollars
1/100 chance to win 20 dollars
1/250 chance to win 50 dollars

Well all hope was pretty much lost and I was just opening up the remainders, when my friend points out that I won something. At first I looked at it and thought they were just lemons which is good for 1 dollar. But after closer inspection, I realized that they weren't lemons, but instead gold bars. Which, I hadn't mentioned for suspense purposes, means...

50 FUCKING BUCKS!!!

Now bear in mind, it has practically nothing to do with getting 50 bucks. But considering that I was foolish enough not to read the fucking machine and lose 10 bucks in the worst possible fucking way, where not only do I lose 10 bucks, I also lose my shame and dignity, and not only to win, but to win the most fucking amount possible from those shitty fucking tickets was just fucking amazing.

So there you have it: a score of 196 and 50 fucking bucks (technically 40 because I had lost 10 already) so yeah....WOOOOOO! Fuck you all!!!