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author: Eric Wagoner
date: '2000-03-19T04:25:36'
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title: On a whim, I woke
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On a whim, I woke up early and drove to a yard sale being held a few miles down the road from me. As I walked in the yard, the very first thing I saw was a new-looking reel mower, exactly the same model [I wrote about the other day](/#88751). Asking price? Twenty bucks. I grabbed it and a wheelbarrow and went on my way. I have this knack for having things work out well. My friends notice it [more than I do](http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Palace/1757/taoism.htm) and ask me (usually after yet another roll of triple sixes during a [Risk game](http://www.hasbro.com/risk/original/)) how I have such good luck with everything. I've never had the answer before, but now that I have a car, I realize that I was given good luck in exchange for having every traffic light turn red right as I pull up. It annoys me at times, but I've come to terms with the trade and I think that I got the good side of the deal.