I keep a religious charm with me.
One time, my wife and I went to Atlantic City. We really did not go to gamble. We went for a comedy show and a nice dinner...well, over the weekend, a nice show and a couple of nice dinners. And I gambled, but my max of $100. Just $100. And, you know, I started wishing I would just win $1 million dollars.
So, I had worked with the comedian years and years ago. I knew him, but not well. I had known he was a nice guy, but did not know how nice. He saw me there with my wife and just stopped and told my wife all these wonderful things about me. About 99.99% of them were simply not true. But he just wanted to make me look good in front of my wife. It was an incredibly nice thing to do.
And he saw me looking around at the tables and said, pointing to my wife, "looks like you already won the lottery."
So, I am pretty sure that religious charm worked perfectly.
The comedian was Floyd Vivino. Well known in NJ as "Uncle Floyd." He had part in Robin Williams movie "Good Morning Vietnam."
And his comedy set? Super, top level stand-up. Really knocked it out of the park.