This is not totally related to scuba diving but and interesting
coincidence story. The guy who was my scuba instructor was an
electrician and my dad's work sometimes required electrical parts.
One day my sister went with my dad to work and they had to pick up
some parts at an electrical wholesaler where they were running a
promotion where the grand prize was a small sail boat. Our instructor
had been entering the contest every day he went in there which had
been nearly a hundred times but when the cards where drawn my
sister's one entry filtered to the top. She was the proud owner of a
sailboat and our instructor was livid he could not believe his bad
luck. He took every opportunity to mention it and rant about it while
we were in his class and after. We had that little boat for many
years and would take it down to the local ponds and sail back and
forth until it came all the way a part and we junked it. On the topic
of or instructor's bad luck he was killed in a train accident when
his truck was rear-ended by a lady who pushed him into the railroad
crossing. The moral, of course, is if you loose a raffle by long odds
go ahead and double up on your life insurance because your days are
numbered. This may not be a hard and fast rule but why risk it?
