i called it, but it doesn't matter now...

all last week i drove around listening to the radio while i went on my appointed rounds getting crap for use at the salt mine. and all week i heard about how the new england patriots were gonna win the superbowl. and at the very least they would cover the point spread for all the bookies taking bets from hopeful betters. i not only thought that the giants would beat the point spread, i also thought the giants would win the game - outright. i even went as far as to try and make a wager on the game with the giants winning the game.
so yesterday while we waited in line at the vancouver public library for our push festival show, i looked over and saw that one of the stores in the square, had a lotto terminal. i went in, grabbed a sports action ticket, and proceeded to the counter and asked the gentleman behind the counter, who runs the place and the lotto machine, if he could help me make my bet. he couldn't. he didn't know how to fill out the form for the sports action thingy. and neither did i. i told him i was a little surprised at this, that he ran the shop but had no idea how to play any of the games on his terminal. so i left. then i remembered that they, usually, had a menu of games listed so that people could pick the games they wanted to bet on, and fill out the appropriate box, much like lotto 6/49, and away you go. so back in i went. i asked if he had the menu of games, again he tolfd me he had no idea about any menu of games but said that there were a whole lot of options on his machine/terminal and he didn't know how to see what games were available to be bet on. he did tel me that there wasanother shop a few blocks away that could probably help me.
i gave up at that point. it just wasn't meant to be. and that's ok....but it would have been nice to have made a little money to spend on a fancy dinner or something....

g. xo