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Mel
..Got myself into a whole tizz, after seeing an envelope marked
"If undelivered, please return to Zetters Pools". It’s
amazing how many uses of a lump sum you can envisage in a twenty second
period, I’m sure mine amounted to one of those near death experiences,
where your whole life flashes before your eyes, only you’re slimmer, much,
much richer and you always managed to end arguments with fantastic witty one
liners that left your opponent grimacing and the rest of the room collapsing
in heaps of laughter.
I am, it’s sad to say, one of those over optimistic fools who really
thinks the world is lucky to have me here and should therefore provide me
with an income large enough to keep me occupied in a leisurely but
intellectual fashion for my youth, and relaxing gracefully in my old age.
Needless to say my sense of self worth is based on the ramblings of an over
fond and deluded father, so bears very little relation to the rest of the
world. Shame really.
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So, winning some type of mass hysteria inducing lottery would be the perfect way to
achieve my true potential in life. With this in mind I dutifully began to research the
world wide web for cash making opportunities - preferably with minimum outlay and effort,
maximum potential payback.
Cunningly I typed "lotteries" , and lo, a myriad of sites subtitled "Get
rich quick" appeared, which seemed exactly my cup of tea. Greedily I continued, to
find a not inconsiderable hurdle of having to go to Queensland, Australia, in order to
complete that avenue. Positive though it is on many an occasion, the international nature
of the world wide web can utterly disappointing in certain situations. Back to square one
then.
What next? Well, the good old football pools then, that served most of the nation well
for many a year, can’t be all bad. So, onto " Littlewoods pools" we go. It
even says I can play online, which sounds perfect for matching my "minimum
effort" prerequisite. So, on wards & upwards, choosing lucky numbers, clicking
boxes I go, until it comes to the payment stage, and whoops, it doesn’t take my type
of charge card. Next.
I try to widen my search - how about just "football pools" - here, we’re
onto a winner, Zetters Pools. Smaller, yes, lower jackpot, maybe, but online payment, an
array of payment choices and after a short nervous twitch imagining every PC on planet
being mail bombed with "Some idiot’s put their card number on the net, quick, go
open a swiss bank account" I completed what was a very simple, and I’m assured
safe, "online transaction" (that’s what they call it in business-speak). I
hadn’t even had chance to check if the afeared hackers had bought several AK47s on my
card before guess what? Two weeks later I’m a winner. Only £13.02 mind, but I’m
now a fully fledged online sales consumer, and it still strikes me with the feeling on
free money.
I’ll get back to you when I’ve seen my bank statement.
Melanie
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