Candlelight Memoirs True Stories

Encounter of online shopping gone wrong. Here is a laughable but not so funny to me at the time peanut butter jar disaster story. It was a couple or three years ago I ordered some foodstuffs and other household goods online from a well known retailer. One of the items contained in the package was a large jar of brand name peanut butter. Everything seemed okay at first as I proceeded to put all my shopping items away. I put the peanut butter jar in the cupboard and left it at that. It wasn't till the next day I opened the cupboard door and I noticed there was peanut butter leaking all over from the bottom of the jar and onto the cupboard floor. I thought to myself, what the heck! I pulled the jar out of the cupboard and examined it closely and noticed there was a long fine split near the bottom of the jar.  It looked as though someone had taken a long sharp object and literally gutted the jar. I was not pleased. It was obvious that when the peanut butter was shipped somebody had bee...

  For several years I faithfully played the lottery. I was hoping at one point and was sure I would win the huge jackpot so I could buy this large elegant chateau type house that was on the market. I ogled this house so much and even knew how I would furnish and decorate it once I was moved in. Oh, did I want that house so bad! I even went overboard on my budget and bought a lot of Lotto Max lottery tickets hoping I would have the correct numbers. I even calculated the possibility of numbers and combinations for more chances to win. I would fantasize all the time about this beautiful mansion and about how much life would be better owning a large estate and having all the luxuries I do not have now. It was a wonderful dream and the lottery helped me produce those dreams in my head but the let down was it did not get me the ultimate win I needed to buy that house! As time passed on the dream started to fade into a lesser mode of wishful thinking. I knew in my heart that the chances o...