That can happen...wouldn’t happen to me, though, because I’ve never won anything but a horrible statuette at a raffle that I bid on only because I wanted to give them a little contribution. And the “donor” was there so I couldn’t immediately ditch it.
But it’s true that a tiny bid can turn out very well, and the family that I was with marched up to the window and put down a couple of dollars, as they always did. We didn’t win anything but it was fun and it gave you a horse to root for.
Yes, it can.
I was up a big amount early in the day and then I got a call that my Mom had a stroke. She was suffering from ALS and I was her primary caretaker at the time. I never moved so fast in my life.
She ended up passing away two weeks later because it was her time. She fought it for 5 and a half years.
I just know that she was rewarding me. I had just spent the previous 4 hours with her in the hospital and it was time for her nap.
There is a time for everything.
I won on the very first horse I ever bet on, a 17-1 shot.