Instant Scratchy (2005-07-25)
A coupla weeks ago, I took Daifoo to the vet for a checkup and to get more medicine for him and the bill totaled 11770 yen which was written on a receipt dated Heisei 17/7/11 ( Heisei 17 is the name and number of the era of the current Emperor).
Then in the afternoon I went to a supermarket and bought grocery
worth 1778 yen. Next I made a stop at a drug store and surprised
to see the things I bought came to 577 yen. So, on one hot July
day, I made all those 7's in bills and purchases.
I was messenging with KL and told him about it. I felt so
positively lucky that I asked him to get an Instant Scratchy for me on
his way home which he did. It was the very first time we had gotten a
Scratchy in Japan. Well, I didn't win anything, turns out neither the
number 7 nor beginner's luck does me any good.
What was I doing? I was looking too hard and too much at
something as simple as some 7's coincidentally appearing several times
in a day. Searching for patterns within chaos, that's what I was
doing. I excitedly thought I found it and it was nothing but a
bunch of 7's.
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