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Should have bought a lottery ticket today?

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sevenlayermuddle:
I dragged the (heavy, petrol powered) lawn mower up the drive, about 50 feet long, a steep hill varying from 1 in 5 to a level plateau at the bottom.   I then turned my back on it while I surveyed my task, the lawn at the top.

Then I heard a noise best described as 'trundle', ascending in pitch and volume.   I looked around to see the mower careering down the hill, glancing off a wall that knocked it off to one side, before crashing into a garden planter down the side of the house, breaking off a wheel and bending the axle.

Reasons why I should have bought the lottery ticket...

1) There's usually a car parked down there, today there wasn't.

2) If it hadn't glanced off the wall, it would have gone straight through the house window.

3) I actually had a spare wheel, as another had cracked through old age a while ago, and I bought a pair.  The bent axle straightened out again with the help of a vice and a big hammer, so I was back in business inside an hour.

Talk about dodging a bullet.   :D

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