So to keep the spirits up we surf the net for good ideas !
Check the Lotto and dream of better days.
Be careful that you have a plan and that you can keep a secret .
My good old dad used to say that 3 men together can only keep a secret if two of them are dead and the survivor killed them. A wise man.
Say nothing and I mean that.
A guy from my old home town won £4.7 million in old money. He invited me to the party and even though there was a mini bus provided I could not go.
5 or 6 weeks later I met him by chance on Talbot st., he looked like he had been beaten up.
He said that the party that he threw was invaded by a shower of thugs who drank the pub dry and then smashed up the place. Two of 3 sack full of letters every day of begging letters and people coming to the door.
He went to America to a place called Montana. That place has its own problems with drugs.
He is back in Ireland living the secret life.
I myself checked my lotto ticket on the phone app.
"Its a winner"
I checked it 4 more times, same result €30 million or thereabouts!!!
I got my bank details, my passport and my driving license and went off to the Lotto HQ.
My heart was soaring, thinking of that cheap house in Modica Sicilia and that 15ft yacht.
So I handed in my ticket.
"Yes indeed it is a winning ticket, you have won a €3 ticket into the millionaire raffle"
Wow, talk about my heart hitting my boots.
The girl told me that it takes up to 10 am for the computer to calculate the smaller prizes.
I argued that the system should just say "You have won a prize. Not its a winner"
Anyhoo (As they say in Canada) I went home an was asked a few questions. A few!
Where were you?
What were you doing at the Lotto HQ?
What was your plan? by not telling me.
To make light of it I nearly enacted the old joke.
"If I won the Lotto and gave you half my winnings would you leave me ?
Here's €1.50 Now fuck off.."
One has to have a filter between your brain and your mouth.
I got the silent treatment for around 3 weeks.
So I was just daydreaming and asked the computer if there was any yachts for sale?
There was a 60ft one going for a few million in the Cayman Islands Which caused me to look it up on the world map. Just south of Cuba.
Then there was a news station giving a bit of local news, this guy is a real clown.
I don't know which circus he escaped from.
The speaker of the Cayman House of representatives Mr.Keeva Bush was on trial for assault.
He put in a plea of not guilty, after watching the video he pleaded guilty to 3 of the miner charges. The tapes started off with him staggering down the street, holding on to a pole before collapsing to the ground between two parked cars now with just his feet sticking out.
He gets up and pulls himself up to the bar where he grabs a staff member by the hair and punches her three times to the face. A but of a fight finds him subdued and arrested.
How did the trial go?
His main defense is that he doesn't remember it.
So he was found guilty and has a 2 year jail sentence suspended for 2 years
A curfew from 6pm to 6am fined £700 for disorderly conduct also the judge gave the police a doorstop condition which is the power to enter his home to check on his whereabouts.
He also had to pay the girl $4,279 compensation .Look up the Cayman Compass.
So if you read the book you will know about my all time hero.
Chuck Feeney was in my taxi and he gave me advice which was worth thousands.
You never know who you are talking to, seldom you find about them. I was very lucky that day. Obama brought out a law that you could not give away more than $2,000 anonymously. He wanted to know who was giving money to the opposition.
A very clever move but none of his business really.
So Chuck Feeney went to the newspapers to declare that he was the person behind Atlantic Philanthropies Chuck has given away more than $8 billion.
Now I know what you are thinking.(Did he give you a tip?) Yes a €5, but I spent it.
There is a book called The billionaire who wasn't by Conor O'Cleary
I have heard great stories about him and one day I got a phone call from Tim Pat Coogan a writer (Wherever green is worn etc) John I am just back from San Francisco and I was having dinner with a friend of mine. He put down his fork and asked me if I knew you by name and how you were keeping. How the hell do you know Chuck Feeney?
Yes Tim Pat its a small world.
I will give you some of his gems.
Do your tax early, you will have to do it, so don't lett the stress kill you.
Live within your means and save a little.
People who live on credit cards might have to work 20 years longer to pay off their debts or pass those debts to their children.
OK your taxi breaks down and you might have to use up your savings and more to replace the car or the engine. But work on it and pay off the debt quickly.
Be polite. Imagine how you will get on if you missed your flight and kicked the Ryanair desk?
He is the gold standard of what people should be like, unlike Mr Bush
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