Monday, April 6, 2009

Gamling is only wrong if you lose

With the NCAA tournament coming to an end tonight when the University of North Carolina Tar Heels play the Michigan State Spartans in the championship game also means the ending of the all important office pool. Some people enter just for fun and pick teams based on who wears green or whose mascot is the coolest and they occasionally somehow win. Some people say that this is a waste of money, like all gambling, I do not, that is if you win. Tonight if the Tar Heels beat the Spartans I finish first in the office pool and win $300, and I do not feel an ounce of wrongness in doing so. $5 that wasn't even mine, my grandma very nicely pitched in for the pool, could turn into $300. Yes, I will give my grandma back her money, but I will keep the rest, and spend it very wisely, that is if North Carolina wins. If Michigan State wins, oh well, it will be like the other 10 years where I lost.

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