My phone went yesterday and a man introduces himself to me as a potential client and offers me work. He asks all the right questions about my tax file, my experience and my abilities and I pass the examination with flying colors. Send me a quote, he says and hangs up. I stew for half an hour as I try and calculate the risks of taking the work, the possible costs I will be incurring and whether I can make a profit out of it. Working is not like online gambling. I expect to make money from working. I send off my quotation and fix myself a cup of coffee while I wait for the phone call that will tell me I got the work. I go back to my computer and log into an online casino and play the slot machines while I wait for the phone to ring. An hour later I change to playing roulette. I am not concentrating on the wheel and all my attention is directed to the phone that doesn’t ring. I play with $10 chips and play recklessly, scattering the chips across the board and not keeping an eye on the action. At 6 I realize that my potential new client has probably left his office and I won’t hear from him today. I cash out from the roulette game and I am surprised to see that the credit balance in my deposit account at the online casino is close to $5,000. I can’t remember what it was when I logged in, but I’m sure it was nothing like that. Next morning I am up early checking my email. Nothing. Back to the online casino and back to the slot machines while I wait for the phone to ring or an email to come floating in from cyberspace. I play on a slot machine that is marked Progressive Jackpot and I play maximum coins all the time. An hour passes and I am practically comatose watching the strawberries and bananas spinning on the slot machine and listening for that phone call. When the fire engine bell signifying a jackpot goes off, I practically have a heart attack from the shock. I won a “modest” progressive jackpot, $1.9 million only. What happened to the potential client? Who cares! Posted on: May 9, 2008
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