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Every time I judge by looks I'm dead wrong. Example: Go to a drive through ATM near a gas station. Get cash and park my car at the bank so I can run into the gas station to buy a scratch lottery ticket for my brother inlaw's birthday. As I'm preparing to exit the car a really strange looking tall bearded dark haired guy walks close to my car. He was watching me go to the ATM.He's very tall and wearing dark dirty looking clothes. I wait until he passes as my "spidey senses" are tingling and then exit the car and go to buy my lottery ticket. I ask for a $20 ticket and pay the man. End of story....not quite. I stuff the lottery ticket in the birthday card and drive up to NH and have a nice breakfast etc with my family. Bro inlaw scratched ticket and of course doesn't win squat. He shows me the ticket and WTF! It's a $10 ticket! I paid $20. My fault for not looking when I left the store. Now $10 is not a lot of money but I've been out of work since October of last year and every little bit helps. So I stop at the store on my way home to see if the same guy is behind the counter. No such luck and to make matters worse, It's the creepy big guy that was casing me at the ATM behind the counter!
Turns out he is the nicest guy in the world. Very personable and friendly. I explain my situation and he said they would take my phone number and call me at the end of the shift if the till was over $10. I never thought I'd hear from them but sure enough two hours later the guy calls to say my ten bucks is in an envelope in the vault and stop by anytime to pick it up.
Wife picked it up today. Nice to know that I can be so wrong.
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