When to Hold ‘em, Odds ARE , YOU gamble!

A picture:    That is Marian and Dallas visiting from Pennsylvania a few years ago,  We took them on a tour of the Dora Canal off Lake Dora. (Me 'n Marian are the kids of the group) For Today: I guess I am a gambler.  Millions hope to win the lottery, but do not really expect it! Just buying a $2 ticket is a key to short lived dreams until the winner (not you) is announced.  My friend Dallas (like that name?)  I call him Dal.  1956 We met on a beautiful Island called Parris! He was old, 18 methinks, I was a kid of 17.  He and I think alike.  We feel the same way; buy a ticket and think what we could do with the millions?  I do not regret the $ tickets I have bought.  It has given cause todo a lot of good thinking. LOL I smile when people say with pride, “I never gamble!”  I want to ask if they take out insurance?  That is a gamble, you are betting something bad will happen, they are betting IT WILL NOT! I am not trying to scare you, but have you ever thought how close to a terrible accident you are driving down a ROAD MEETING TRAFFIC.  Many times, you are facing a car and both are going at least 60 mph (today many are facing each other at 80mph). That is a crash at minimum of 120MPH! many times you are only 3 or 4 feet  apart! (if you do not know that Numbers is Bible, you won't get the joke) You are betting (hoping) the drivers coming at you are paying attention (or you would take the bus or stay home). Thank goodness, most drivers ARE paying attention!  AND FOR SURE SOME OF YOU YANKEES UP THERE will leave your homes and KNOW black ice awaits you, but you still must get to the store or work.   I don’t know who does it, but companies figure odds on everything in life. Racing and sports odds, in detail. I can find the odds that I will live to 100. You can find out what the odds of you being hit by lightning. Sherry took a chance when she married me, the odds of our pasts said this marriage will not last. But she didn’t care, I was so danged good looking.  Odds to the wind,  LOL Some folks gamble with their health by what they eat! Some people gamble their health by how much they drink! What is TERRIBLE and heart breaking, people (especially the youth) who think they are invincible, gamble with their lives on illegal drugs! I took a chance you would stick with me much over my 400 words. Thanks. 485!!  OUCH!   Nite Shipslog PS:  AGAIN THANKS for reading the  Shipslog. It is nice to know some folks read this stuff that an old man writes.  Funny, it will SEEM only weeks and YOU will say, “How did I get to be 80 yrs old and not realize it? LOL (just Wait and see!!!) ODDS: FACT I just looked up the chances of me making it to 100. Odds are 14 in a 1000, terrible odds. About 14 in 1,000 According to the Social Security Administration, the life expectancy for an 86-year-old American male is an additional 5.07 years, for a total life expectancy of 91.07 years. The chance of reaching 100 years old is only about 14 in 1,000     Title