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I was 17 at the time and was given £100 by my mother to go to town and back and pay the electric bill, which I believe was about £97
Anyhow I nipped in the bookies and thought I would bet a £1 to win a couple of quid towards some 20/20 :/
Of course it lost, and now I was chasing. Within an hour I had done the lot, the lot except for 17p in copper in the bottom of my pockets. I didn't even have the bus fare home and it was a good 7 miles walk. So I got a plain slip and started to write down horses, greyhounds pretty much anything I could reasonably expect to get a run from. Total selections were 9 and I waited to watch them. 8 for 8, waiting on the last one, running around 4.40 or so and it duly romped in. All won, collected £104 for my 17p accumulator, got my 20/20, paid the electric and mother never knew :)
Anyhow I nipped in the bookies and thought I would bet a £1 to win a couple of quid towards some 20/20 :/
Of course it lost, and now I was chasing. Within an hour I had done the lot, the lot except for 17p in copper in the bottom of my pockets. I didn't even have the bus fare home and it was a good 7 miles walk. So I got a plain slip and started to write down horses, greyhounds pretty much anything I could reasonably expect to get a run from. Total selections were 9 and I waited to watch them. 8 for 8, waiting on the last one, running around 4.40 or so and it duly romped in. All won, collected £104 for my 17p accumulator, got my 20/20, paid the electric and mother never knew :)
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You won £4
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We have a one here, well done.
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I once picked up a fiver off my Mums dressing table and went to the bookies
I had loser after loser until I was down to the last 20p I noticed in a 6 runner race that the Michael Dickinson favorite was 1/5 or some daft price its form figures were -FFFF so I backed the outsider of the lot at 66-1 the dickinson horses fell after a couple of fences and I crossed my fingers as my pick jumped the last fence and romped home.I went to the pub for a pint or two and later replaced the fiver before my Ma got back.. |
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I did something similar when i was 15 but was not so lucky, i ended up walking 12 miles home in the dark and told my mother i had been mugged.
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weemart is laying down trying to think up a story
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Angel Gabrial • October 21, 2014 7:03 PM BST
I did something similar when i was 15 but was not so lucky, i ended up walking 12 miles home in the dark and told my mother i had been mugged |
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Dear God
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After walking 12 miles you must have looked fuc*ed, it's not surprising your Mother believed you. I would have told her I tried to fight them off, but there were too many .... she would have given me a fiver reward
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Did the same thing over 30 years ago, when I was 15. My Mother and my friends Mother gave us both money to go strawberry picking from the local farm. Unfortunately we detoured to the betting shop and lost it all. We stayed out until gone midnight and headed back into the field to pinch the strawberries. Got 2 large boxes each and headed back home. On the way, we were stopped by a police car. He asked us where we got them from. I told him we found them at the side of the road, already in the boxes. He looked down and said " Why have you got two red patches on the knees of your jeans?"
We ended up taken to the police station and confessing all.  |
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Andrew
She knew i would have put up a fight so i had to scuff up my knuckles and punch myself in the face to make the whole thing believable. |
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As a 16year old in 1985 I told my mum that Western Dancer was worth backing in the Ebor, she gave me a tenner which I pocketed and of course Western Dancer won at 20-1. I cannot remember what I was thinking of as I had fancied the horse leading up to the race. I paid her the money eventually
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17p 9 horse race accum every horse 6/4 comes to £648.50
porkie pies? |
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No, most were odds on, like I said I was hoping for a miracle. 2 dogs were about 5/4 and evens, the rest anywhere from 10/11 to 1/2
Asking me to remember from way back, but the story is true :) |
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you were in the film Kes
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Happens quite a lot really. I could go in to the bookies with £200 nowadays, spunk £195 on 4 losing bets, then get a £5 treble up and walk out with the same amount I started with. I always think if only I walked in 30 mins later lol
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Reading the BF Forum is certainly educational.
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you need to join the terrible e/w treble thread
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when i first started betting horses and knew next to nothing about them went in with £8 and walked out with £125.Bet 7 winners in a row and was quite pleased.Think back now if only it was a accumalator could have won thousands.
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^ Then you would have, similarly, "spunked," a similar £195 on 4 losing bets - first - never dreaming of starting off with the £5 treble - and then tried a Treble, an hour later.
Your approach can only prove to be calamitous - in the long run. |
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^ to mirisoo 21 Oct 14 19:48
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Yeah, I'm definitely a mug punter onlooker :)
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