CJ Wiley: flat earther

I've had one similar experience that was really weird and hard to explain.

When I was a teenager, I was with my parents when they were set up at a flea market. This flea market ran a weekly 50/50 raffle. Anyone could get in, customers and vendors. The 50/50 was a way to raise some extra money for the folks that owned the flea market. Anyway, one week I bought a ticket for the 50/50 and I knew I was going to win. Absolutely certain and without doubt. I can't even explain the feeling except that I was 100% positive I was going to win. I could even recall planning what I was going to do with the money.

Because we were set up there, I was there for the afternoon drawing. I went up and waiting for the drawing to collect my money. As expected, my ticket / number was drawn. I believe I won a few hundred bucks. Tickets were a dollar each and they kept half; that means they sold around 400 tickets, and my chances were 1 in 400. That was 45-50 years ago and never had a similar experience / premonition.
I had a similar, though entirely less lucrative experience, only once in my life.

There was a coffee vending machine at work that served its fare in paper cups. On the bottom of each cup was printed a random playing card. I was with a young lady colleague, with whom I had a particular very strong mutual attraction, although I was not able to act on it because I was married. I dunno, we had some sort of spiritual connection. It’s hard to describe it.

But damned if in the instant the cup deployed I impulsively pronounced “Ten of Diamonds!” I had never before tried to guess the card printed on the cup’s bottom. Something told me to blurt it out, and I don’t know how but knew I was right. And there it was. One-in-52 chance.

We both looked at each other mystified.

Too bad it never happened with something of more and beneficial consequence.

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