The Joy Of Winning Money |
So this little guy walks up with a bucket and we get the deal, ten tickets for five bucks. We never win anything but these kind of things keep clubs like this going along with alcohol consumption. Ten minutes later, he calls out the numbers and viola, we have one of the numbers and win two 12 ounce steaks! As my good friend Mac would say, Yippee. We laughed with others about our winning and struck up a conversation with the couple sitting next to us, residents of the village of Ashville, Doug and Dawn Johnson. As we were talking, Evie looked up at the gambling board and saw there were a couple of $160.00 tickets still up for grabs. So we thought, hey, this is our lucky day so we bought five dollars worth of tickets. You have to open each ticket and to win, you must have three matches on a ticket. We opened the first four, nothing, the fifth, and we won two dollars. Big deal. So, we bought two more, what the heck, might as well waste two dollars more and viola, Evie went crazy as we won one hundred and sixty bucks. The others at the bar started laughing, wanted to come over for dinner for steaks, and so on. We gave a nice tip to the bartender, bought our friends a beer, and thought about how much fun we were having.
We did not push our luck, so at 7:30, we went into the dining room, and easily got a table for two. I ordered the fish fry and Evie had a Swedish special, Winka ham with ligonberry sauce. It's a fresh ham, brined, then slow cooked with Swedish spices, and its texture is more like a pork roast than ham. Evie really liked it and my fish fry was fine. By the time we finished, the bar and dining room were starting to empty as it was close to the closing of the dining room. As we got ready to leave, the guy with the steak raffle tickets came by and said he had more steaks. We could win a single steak this time if we had the right ticket. So Evie, unable to resist the temptation to win another steak, bought the special, ten tickets for five bucks. We stood around for five minutes as he continued to sell tickets, then announced the winners. Evie checked out tickets and by gosh, we had two winners, so we went home with two more steaks. All I can say is when we return to the lake in January, we will be back.
7:25 |
A Raft Of Ducks On Thin Ice |
The rest of the afternoon I read my John Wooden biography. We are to the point in his life where they win one NCAA title after another and his lack of relating to his players is the major problem, as America is changing, Blacks are ascendant, the Counter Culture is in full bloom, but John Wooden does not change. And. then, around 6:00 we headed off to the Viking Club. Little did we know it would be a night to remember.
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