It was the day I bought a lottery ticket. It was a problem because I was in a coffee shop and I had no change. So I said to the lady, ‘If I give you a lottery ticket, I will come back with the change.’
She said, ‘If you win, you pay me then.
‘No,’ I said, ‘because if I win, you can have half because I’m paying you for my coffee with a ticket, so you own that for the moment.’ I went and got money, I paid her for the coffee, and I had the ticket back.
She said, ‘So if you win, do I still get half?’
‘Not now because I paid you, but if I win I will come in for a coffee and you can have somewhere about two hundred thousand pounds,’ I joked. She said OK, so I went to town and I bought another ticket, and I went in a coffee shop. And I said, ‘We can share half if we win.’ I said, ‘I will get this In writing, so it will be legal before Saturday.’ Anyway I went to get the legal agreement, but he was away ill so I could not get in time. So I went in to tell her, but she had gone home early for a house-warming party.
Anyway the lottery came on and it was the number on the ticket that I had said I would share. But it was off, because it was not legal. The next day I went in, she had a big smile on her face saying we won, but I told it was not legal because the guy was off.
She said, ‘you can still give me half because you said yes I could.’ Well with nothing down, you can get nothing. I left her sobbing. I felt bad so I said, ‘Come over after work, I will give you a bit.’ She came over and I said she could have her half. Like I said, ‘I am sorry I could not live with myself so we’re friends.’ She said, ‘Friends but I do not want the two hundred thousand. But that ticket did not win. You won the raffle, one million pounds. ‘Ok,’ I said, ‘it was numbers not the raffle.’ So I was very pleased with the money
