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- Share a post each day for three consecutive days (3 quotes total)
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Today’s quote comes from my father. In the all the years I knew my dad he would have a bet on the races each Saturday and each week buy a series of lottery tickets.
On a Saturday afternoon, I would find him with a pile of betting tickets next to him. I’d ask him how his afternoon had gone and he’d look at his pile of unsuccessful tickets and say: “It’s a hard game.”
He applied the same philosophy to the lottery. To me, his saying symbolised his life. Brought up in the depression years, life was tough, and in many ways, it remained that way though he did marvel at the usefulness of his microwave oven.
Tomorrow as a treat, a quote from my mum.
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Morpethroad 
and I often wonder at how wealthy they might have been had they not bought those tickets … 😦
I think we’d be so much better off. But then again there is a sense of excitement at having a ticket.
never really bought them as I watch my mothers losses, insurance is also another form of gambling …
I think my dad in all the years I watched him screw up his tickets won $300 one night. Then againa win of $10 he treated as a great thing. He had another saying that if he won anything big it would ruin everything.
my mum and your dad would have been a perfect match 🙂