The Luck Of The Spage

Last week I was spending an evening chillaxing with Wookiee. We went out, smoked some bowls, picked up pizza and crazy bread, then settled in at my place. We were watching Green Day's Bullet In A Bible DVD and when Jesus of Suburbia came on Wookiee made an off-hand comment about how popular that song still is. I indicated that I had no awareness of such a thing, so he explained that the song is always on the radio and that he had even seen the video for it on Muchmusic. I was surprised to hear this because it is such a long song. I asked if it wasn't the nine minute long song and Wookiee wasn't sure, only that it was indeed a long one. After a few seconds I said, "Isn't it like, nine minutes and eight seconds long?" The number had just jumped into my head, how could I possibly know the length of the song right down to the second? So I checked my playlist, and lo and behold, the length was listed as 9:08. I was pretty impressed by that, but it was about to get stranger.

Later on the same night, we were watching some t.v. when I noticed my receipt from the pizza we had bought before getting to my place. The total for my food came to $9.08. Speechless, I showed the receipt to Wookiee, whose eyes widened in spooked agreement to it's coincidence. The 908 conversation had apparently started much earlier than we had originally thought.

Coincidently, two days earlier my aunt finally came through with a request I had placed months ago; to get me a copy of the British Columbia Lottery Corporation (BCLC) book of games. This little booklet tells you about all the different BCLC games you can play and in it I read about a game called Pick 1-2-3. This game draws three numbers daily and if you match them, you win a prize proportionate to the amount you bet. After the numbers 9, 0, and 8 came up twice I had a feeling I should play them in Pick 1-2-3. I had only just learned of the games' existence so Wookiee and I re-read the BCLC booklet to figure out how to play the game. After we had finally deciphered the method, I firmly decided to purchase a ticket when I got to work in the morning.

When I got to the office I went to the BCLC website to see if there were any last minute instructions I could find on how to 'order' the ticket without sounding like a total knob. Immediately I noticed that something was not right. The last set of winning numbers listed was from February, and I wasn't finding any instruction on how to play the game. After a few more minutes of research I discovered the answer to the anomalies. The game, it would seem, no longer existed.

Crestfallen.

So you see, with my kind of luck, even the fated numbers lead only to disappointment.