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To: Bob Bryenton who wrote (5053)	3/22/1998 2:54:00 PM
From: Broker M	Respond to of 62549

A wife asks her husband to go to the store and get milk. The husband is totally broke, he asks his wife for $2 to get the milk, the wife, of course makes her comment: "if you didn't go to the track and lose all your money, you wouldn't be broke all the time, heres the $2." Mumbling to himself, the husband leaves the apartment. Instead of getting the milk,he decides to go to the track. Not having money for admission, he hops the gate when the security guard isn't watching. He bets the $2 on the 2 horse in the first race, and contrary to his luck the horse wins easy, he now has $12. He figures this is my lucky day, he let's the money ride on the second race and bets the 2 horse, sure enough the 2 horse wins again, he now has $50. He now figures 2 is his lucky #,he started with $2 and won on the 2 horse twice, so he let's the money ride again on the 2 horse, he wins again. He keeps letting it ride and winning, finally its the 9th and final race, he has a total of $72,000 and the 2 horse in the last race is the even money favorite, he looks unbeatable, by now the husband is feeling invincible, he says to himself, wait til I get home and show my wife the money and tell her that her "loser" husband is finally going to buy her the house of her dreams. He takes the 72 grand and goes up to the teller and says let it ride on the 2 horse. The gate opens the 2 horse takes a huge lead into the stretch, but all of a sudden tires, he still has 3 lengths with 70 yards to go, and another horse comes flying at him, at the wire, it's too close to call, the photo comes up and the 2 horse loses by a whisker. The husband is totally despondent and drained, he goes home. As soon as gets in the apartment, his wife says, where the hell were you and where's the milk? The husband replies, I went to the track and I lost $2.