The Lottery
Bill Helko, bought five chances at the big $15.5-million Lotto prize in 1967. Late Saturday night, he called the Lotto information number. The recording seemed to be telling him that one of his tickets, on which Helko picked four of the six winning numbers, was worth $610,000.
He straight away tereddüd etmeden went and ordered emretmek a Porsche,booked ayırtmak a family holiday in Hawaii and had a champagne dinner with his wife and friends at an expensive Hollywood restaurant.
Actually, Helko realized later, that's not what the recording said at all hiçbir biçimde. The $610,000 was the prize pool fon for all of the winners in the 4-of-6 category. There were, it turned out, 9,096 other winners to share the amount, leaving him a prize of $67.
May I Take Your Order?
The Ann Arbor News crime column reported that a man walked into a Burger King in Ypsilanti, Michigan at 8:50am flash caka yaparak göstermek a gun and demanded istemek cash.
The clerk tezgahtar turned him down because he said he couldn't open the cash register kasa without a food order.
When the man ordered onion rings, the clerk said they weren't available for breakfast.
The man,frustrated sinirli, walked away.
Put Your Foot In Your Mouth
Employed by the human-development center of a corporation, my friend trains employees in proper dress codes and etiquette görgü kuralları.
One day as she was stepping basmak onto the elevator asansör, a man casually günlük dressed in jeans and a golf shirt got on binmek with her.
Thinking of her responsibilities, she scolded azarlamak,Dressed a little casually today, aren't we?
The man replied,That's one benefit yarar of owning sahip olmak the company...
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