My only question is why Florence didn't pray to the slot machine .....
THE CANADIAN PRESS
PRINCE ALBERT, Sask. — It’s been a long unlucky streak, but her prayers have finally been answered. Ninety-year-old Florence Carey admits she’s played the slot machines for a long time and never won so much as a nickel. But that changed this week for the woman from Prince Albert, Sask., when she hit a button on a slot machine at the Northern Lights Casino and bells started ringing. She’d just won almost $460,000.“It was exciting, but still I can’t believe it,” said Carey, who is a familiar face at the casino and also made bus trips to the United States to gamble. “I must have left them $400,000 or $500,000 and I never got bugger all,” she said.“I was very unlucky ... I (pray) every Sunday when I go to church.” People congratulated her and snapped photos.“ That tired me out a lot. I didn’t sleep at all that night and I had to keep taking nitro because my heart is very weak.” Carey has had her share of other bad luck in life, including heart attacks, a stroke, diabetes and cancer that made her partially blind.“I went through a lot ... I’ve had just about everything.”Poor health has affected her ability to travel, so she goes to the casino for entertainment.“ I sit where I have more room ... because I’m out of the way with my oxygen.” Carey plans to keep $100,000 to gamble with and give each of her nine children a share as well. And, of course, St. Joseph’s Church will be getting a big offering as well.
If I had spent that much dough over the years only to have my prayers answered with less than a half million crumbs, the Church would get sweet f**k all.
ReplyDeleteSo she got her money back?
ReplyDeleteShe paid $500,000, got back $460,000.
ReplyDeleteSeems god is a terrible financial planner.
Just think, on the day God so mercifully answered her prayer to win at the slots, he let over 30,000 people starve to death. Mysterious ways, indeed.
ReplyDeleteShe's going to keep a hundred thousand dollars with which to gamble.
ReplyDeleteHmmmm, me thinks that someone has a problem.
She didn't even fully get her money back, because there's no interest gained. The first $100k she blew would be worth far more than that if she had invested it properly.
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