Hurray! No more apologies!

Yup, I've decided to stop apologising whenever I miss a day doing this. Instead I'll do it whenever something happens to me, and you know what? I learnt something today. Me and NerdE went to Great Yarmouth to pick up our wigs for Comic-Con. My mum dropped us off there, and the road the shop is on is (in the Summer months) always filled with various cheapy shops and a few stalls. One of them was a pretty average carnival game stand. The man running it offered us each a ticket for a free go. Now, I'm not blaming NerdE for what happened next, but if I had been on my own, I would have just said "no, thanks" and sailed right past him. Anyway, NerdE said, before I said "no thanks", "yeah, alright then". So we had a go on this game. We had these hollowed out blocks of wood, imagine a cuboid with an opposite pair of longer sides missing. The game was to place 9 Ping-Pong balls into the wooden holder, then launch them forwards. The balls then fell into differently numbered slots. The numbers were then added up, and you would find that number on a grid. The numbers on the grid were 5 different colours: Red, Blue, Green, Yellow and Black. Red means instant win, you could either chose one of the big cuddly toys or £50 cash ($76.77), Blue means next game free, yellow and green mean lose, and black adds a £25 bonus ($38.39), but the bonus can only be applied if you go on to win. And there's a limit to the number of bonuses, you can get anything up to £200 ($307.08). Now, that's the game and I won't spare the details, but basically it ended with us needing a 33, a blue number or a red number to win £300 ($460.62) (that's the maximum bonus plus the £50 ($76.77) prizes), we could definitely have won it, but then we ran out of money. We only just had enough left over for the wigs and I had to borrow some money off my brother for lunch. We won't be returning there again... and my lesson today is that I will never do anything like that again, I spent about £60 ($92.12) trying to win that massive prize, and what did it get me? Lots of regret. I earned all of that money doing my gardening jobs and such, in case I haven't mentioned it before, that's my main source of income. Anyway, I don't want a gambling problem when I'm older, the odds are grotesquely in favour of the owners of the game/casino... not only that but it's a stupid thing to get into anyway, there's so much better stuff I could be doing with my time. Which reminds me, in the marvelous tradition of Sheep, I bought a game for 10p today (15c)! It's called Hostile Waters and I have no idea what to do in it! So that'll be fun to play! Also, the wig means I'm now set for Comic-Con! Bring on 25th May!