Don’t despair

FLYING BANANA · 7th August 2021, 12:43

Sitting by the window of her convent, Sister Barbara opened a letter from home one evening.
Inside the letter was a $100 bill her parents had sent. Sister Barbara smiled at the gesture:

As she read the letter by the window, she noticed a shabbily dressed stranger leaning against the lamp post below. Quickly, she wrote, "Don't despair Sister Barbara," on a piece of paper, wrapped the $100 bill in it, got the man's attention and tossed it out the window to him.

The stranger picked it up and with a puzzled expression and a tip of his hat, went off down the street.

The next day, Sister Barbara was told that a man was at her door, insisting on seeing her.

She went down, and found the stranger waiting. Without a word, he handed her a huge wad of $100 bills. "What's this?" She asked.

"That's the $8,000 you have coming to you Sister." He replied. "Don't Despair won and paid 80 to 1."

spirit6060 · 7th August 2021, 15:13

I put £100 on a horse and it came in at 25-to-1.

Shame the other runners came in at half past twelve.

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spirit6060 Regular poster MG ZTT Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Cardiff Posts: 95 Thanks: 46 Thanked 71 Times in 37 Posts	Horse race I put £100 on a horse and it came in at 25-to-1. Shame the other runners came in at half past twelve.