Ok… I’m going to apologize in advance on the offchance this is related, though it’s probably nothing… but… about a year ago, I met an old Polish woman at a Cyber Cafe and Coffee House, InterNut Coffee, I think it was called. Not important. So I’m waiting for someone, and this… person walks up, stops at my table, and asks… “Can I get you a refill on your coffee?” It was my waiter, just checking in! How about that?! Not important, it’s just, I usually have to go back to the front for that sort of thing, and it just struck me as nice customer service. I try to make a point of remembering good customer service.
So I’m sitting there, waiting, and I get my phone out, load the game, and do a quick EHT pull. Renfeld… “just my luck” I mumbled under my breath. I must’ve been looking down at my phone long enough that when I looked back up, She was sitting there. No eye contact, just looking at her phone. You’ll remember, I’m waiting for someone, and she’s in that person’s seat, so I kindly say “Hey… uh, buddy, I’m sorry, I’m expecting a friend.” She doesn’t look up, just keeps her head in her phone and says back “You’ve found one…” So I’m a little freaked out, but also kind of flattered. Its not often I get to make new friends that easily, we don’t even know each other’s names! Not important. But anyway, I roll with it, and ask her what she’s working on her phone, and son-of-a-B, you wouldn’t believe if I told you, which I am telling you, but it was [*******]! I guess you had to be there because she did NOT look like a [*******] kind of woman. Not important.
Anyway, we make some small talk, I tell her about myself, she talks a little bit about herself, and after the appropriate amount of jibber-jabber she asks me about the game I was playing when she got here. “Oh, E&P? Yeah, it’s just something to fill the time. I’m not that lucky at it, though.” Just then, she sets down her phone, and I’ll never forget what she said to me in that moment, but it was something, like, “What if you could have all the luck?” Or “Perhaps your luck will turn around…”
Ok… “Go on…” I remember saying. She goes into this lengthy long-winded tirade monologue about how I could get lucky everytime, but “those of whom you care the least for, shall suffer poor luck through an e-curse.”
No brainer, right?! “Sign me up!”
So anyway, to make a long story long, she says she has to go, we wish each other well, and as she’s leaving I look down and see she left her phone, so I quickly yell “Hey Lady! You forgot something!” But she was already gone. So I grab the phone to see if I can find some contact information, or maybe some online banking info and I look down, and its MY E&P account on the phone
Since then, I’ve always gotten exactly what I want from the game, whether it be a hero, AMs, good boards, etc. To make it fun, I’ll still get something I don’t want - it’s not fun winning all the time. But anyway, “for those of whom you care the least” I thought was interesting. Probably (?) not related to your e-curses, just thought it was something I’d bring up.
[Edited by Moderator to stay within the Rules]