Wednesday, July 20, 2022

Every Now and Then, THE UNIVERSE Stops Conspiring Against Val, and Gives Her a Wink

Every day I buy a crossword scratcher. Most days, I'd say 90 percent of the time, I get my crossword at the Gas Station Chicken Store. Not everyplace has this $5 crossword, but even if they do, I'm pretty loyal to the GSCS for this ticket.
 
Tuesday was no exception. I got my crossword, and took it home for scratching. Oh, it was NOT a winner! I don't have a good win rate on this ticket. It's just fun to play, and takes about 15 minutes. There was something special about my ticket on Tuesday.
 
 
Do you notice what was special about my crossword scratcher? Probably not. Just an unremarkable loser, right? No.

 
The third line of the top puzzle has the word COLESLAW! Yes. Val likes coleslaw. But longtime readers know that there was one person who liked slaw even more than Val, and that was VAL'S MOM!

Okay. Does that seem a bit anticlimactic for you? Just seeing the word COLESLAW in a crossword? Let's continue.

 
The lower right corner of the bottom crossword has the word DOT. The name of Val's mom was Dorothy, but nobody called her that. She was just DOT, to family, friends, and co-workers.

Oh, yeah. I didn't notice until I took the picture, but this ticket was number 11 (out of 60 tickets per roll). Val's birthday, though not of the current month, is the 11th. All just crazy coincidences, right?

The only thing that could have excited me more is if there had been a ladybug crawling across my ticket. Or, you know... if it was a winner.

8 comments:

  1. Didn't someone say there are no concidences in life?

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    1. Yes, that's my belief. Nothing is really a coincidence.

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  2. Signs, signs everywhere signs, just be open and you will find.

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    1. These signs mean something to me, so of course I take it that they were meant just for me!

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  3. Did you scratch it at 11:11?

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    1. No, but that's around the time I was typing up the tale, and noticed the 11 as the ticket number. I should have paid more attention when I was scheduling it to post for the next morning.

      If it had been 11:11, I would have used the actual time and posted it early. Because that would have been meant to be...

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  4. That is a few coincidences, perhaps she is trying to tell you something. Although I can't think how she would time that message for when you bought the ticket. Anyone else could have bought it and it would mean nothing to them.

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    1. That's exactly the point. Those things mean nothing to anyone but me, and I got that ticket! Out of all the tickets in the state of Missouri, I found that specific ticket that had meaning to ME.

      I don't think it's any message, other than a reminder of good times, just a sign that was meant for me alone.

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