Allan's Fate Part 3 - The Decision
Here is the reply I received from Allan this week...
Okay, I arrived home last night at 2:30am and I still made it to work first
thing this morning. So, I may not be drunk while I am writing this letter
but I am definitely still loopy from the jet lag.
First of all, I would like to thank the members of The Manbottle Society for
all of their time and effort. I would have to say that I really feel the
Manbottle love.(I don't like the way that sounds, but I bet it would sell a
lot of t-shirts) But for all of your efforts, I am sorry to say that I
cannot give you the final conclusion to my situation today. I had no
contact with either Jamie or Sarah while I was in Vegas - as planned. I
have talked to both of them today. I have dinner plans with Jamie on
Wednesday and I have lunch plans with Sarah on Friday. They are each
getting one more chance to outshine the other before I make my final
decision. If I still can't decide after this week then I will follow the
will of the Manbottle.
One thing that makes me nervous is a new phenomenon that I have labeled the
"Jacks or better/coin flip" phenomenon. Over the course of last week, I
played a lot of Jacks or Better video poker with my friend Carol. When
dealt a low pair with a solo Jack or better, Carol would ask me if it was
better to hold the low pair and hope to draw a three of a kind or would it
be better to hold the solo Jack or better and hope to make a pair. I didn't
know the odds on which was the better way to play, so Carol and I decided to
flip a coin and hold on to whatever the coin decided. Well after following
this strategy for awhile, we noticed that the coin was always wrong, so we
decided to continue flipping a coin but from then on we did the opposite of
what the coin flip had chosen. We never missed a bet after that. So here
is my situation, I have had the Manbottle in essence flip a coin for me.
Yet over the past week I have learned to do the opposite of what the coin
tells me. This decision is going to haunt me.
Allan
I think I speak for all of us when I say, "Hey, wait a minute... who's
Carol?"