An Eight In Your Wallet...

Eight in your wallet...

I'm sure 90% of us on this site listen to or used to listen to Coast to Coast AM With Art Bell or George Noory.

I'm sure all of you have heard at least one segment about the sworn by "eight in your wallet" and how through numerology it can lead you to financial prosperity.

Now I don't know numerology, I don't believe in magic, I don't believe in psychics or ghosts or any nonsense as such. But what could it hurt to try?
That's what I thought at least.

I put the eight in my wallet thinking nothing of it, just a little gag. I'm sitting at my friends house ten minutes afterward and snow came off the roof and broke the meter to his gas, thus we had to evacuate that part of the neighborhood into the freezing street until the gas company could fix it. Obviously a coincidence. I go home before the gas guys get there, I play ps3 and read until it's time to sleep for work in the morning.

When I wake, I find there's no water, our pipes froze and so I'm to go to work with no shower and brush my teeth with cold water easily. Whatever, another coincidence, snow and cold happen, I'm in Colorado afterall.

So then I go to work and my boss isn't in, the "team leader" is, or as I say "interim manager". She has absolutely no understanding of my job and expects me to do things that aren't my job and think i'm being insubordinate If I question her logic in making me do things that are CLEARLY not in my job description or list of responsibilies. Knowing this about her, I lay low and do my work quickly so I can do anything extra she'll want me to do and still get out of there at a good time. All of a sudden the general manager is following me around cursing and yelling, in a way i've never seen him. I just agreed to all of the nonsense he was spouting as to not make the situation any worse, it was really quite weird. See the general manager doesn't oversee my position so It was odd that he was near me in the first place.

So I finished work and the interim manager said the GM was yelling at her too and asked me what was going on with him, I just smirked and told a nice joke.

The next day was my day off, I relaxed.

Then I went into work, my boss was in and he had tears in his eyes, He wouldn't even look directly at me. He told me "I've got some bad news for you...You've been.....Let go".

"#, Are you kidding me? You're gonna fire me in this economy? What am I being fired for?"

"I'm not really sure but when the GM decides something, it's final, and there was nothing I could do about it. You're a cool guy, and that's what makes it difficult."

The moral of the story?

Do not ever place your faith or financial fate in the hands of numerology, it will eff you every time.

So anyway, I used to be an employment specialist, I'm sure I'll be just fine and find another job, but just don't listen to anybody telling you to put a stupid number in your wallet, or you'll find the eight all alone in a desolate, dark, leather piece of junk formerly known as the place you keep your spending money.

God Bless

- Louie

Really interesting story, it's funny as in an ideal world not having a working gas meter would save you money!!!
What did the GM think you had done wrong, in order to get him shouting and yelling, in the first place?
Anyway clearly that 8 buisness doesn't work for you, and now you've told me, I won't be trying it right now either!!!

Hopefully it could land you with a better paying job than you had last. At least that way it might turn out better than it seems right now!!! Even so, I guess that's probably quite a long shot (for now anyways)!

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Chris Moneymaker's on screen player name ended in 8. He won a 33 dollar tournament at Poker Stars and went on to win the world's hold em championship. He came from out of the blue.

My poker screen name ends with 3, and it is definitely not lucky enough.

I was thinking about closing my account and creating a new one that ends with 8.

I'm so sorry this happened to you.

Ever since i have carried an 8 in my wallett, i have always had money.

Theres been an obvious change. Maybe this had to happen so you can get a real good job!!!!!

Good luck.

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Chris Moneymaker won because he is a good poker player with a fitting name.
That 8 deal is a bunch of bull hockey.

Sure hasn't helped Dale Earnhardt Jr.He has two 8's on each side and two on the top and still can't win.

Maybe he should put one in his wallet.

It's so silly to think the eight does anything, I know this.

But alot of coincidences indeed within that one week, and I don't believe in coincidence. Somebody pointed out that maybe I had to lose that job to find a better paying job. Well the one I was just let go from was the worst paying job I've had in a long time so that may be right on the money.

Would it be ridiculous of me to put another eight in my wallet?