Top Ten Ways to Inadvertedly Blow a Fortune
You get a lot of money, and then lose the lot out of sheer bad luck. The thing that gets anyone exasperated. What's the worst way to blow it all? Tell us all, fellow TopTenners.Not a good idea. Chances are you'll drop from using fivers as tissues to using rocks as a currency in an instant. Probability favours loss.
What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas
I would just be stood there feeling so stupid. All of that fortune just went in an instant!
Wonder if this has happened before?
Sitting there, watching the interest go up, thinking it's in your favour. Bad language follows.
You're just settling in by the big fireplace in a vibrating leather chair with a peppermint tea, and then you notice some weird pink wires in the walls. And KABLAM!
I would be smashing everything I could see with a crowbar yelling, "Why me? Why must I suffer like this? "; and then notice I'd destroyed a mint condition Ferrari!
Oh man! I can recall about ten times in the past five years or so that I've walked into a China shop (not necessarily with a bag) and leant against something, only to let it keel over and smash. My brother still makes fun of me for it, after all of these years.
Love this. As soon as I clapped my eyes on it I thought of my Mother. Never was a one so clumsy. I remember a time in Church's China...Argh! Oh my God! The shame. Mothers. Some daughters do 'ave 'em!
This would just rip my little world apart. Gutting.
Wealthy for a millisecond!
I am by no means a heartless person, but if one of my dogs ate my winning lottery ticket, I would absolutely destroy it!