Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for October 31, 2020

Sounds strangely familiar

Sux to be Larry

Ya gotta keep things on the level.

Yep… the dread of my existence. Being like Lovecraft. Writing the terrors in my head… dying penniless… and others making millions off of the stuff I wrote about. That would JUST be My Luck!

But you’ll have fanciest funeral in town!

2nd bit of great news: After you’re gone, your art collection will be deemed revolutionary and ground-breaking, and your widow will be able to sell it off for millions.

Yin and Yang ?

The bad news is, I’m with the IRS.

Ask not for whom the balls fall, they fell for thee.

This is why you put a peep hole in your front door.

Once while “recuperating” in the intensive care unit from a shattered right leg, I was conscious enough to read in the paper of a guy in Chicago, who at his retirement “party” dropped dead when they handed him the traditional “Gold Watch”…It only hurt when I laughed….

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I don’t want a pickle, I just want to die on a big…old sickle.

He always said he’d win the Lotto if it was the last thing he did.

The Grim Reaper’s scythe is exceptionally large. Is he looking for the elephant next door?

That looks like my luck, hence why I rarely put money on a number.

Wait a minute! You’re not Ed McMahon!

Larry suffered from: If he didn’t have bad luck, he wouldn’t have any luck syndrome.

OK, Grim, so how much do you want to leave now and come back in about thirty years?

Larry has my type of luck. Nothing goes right without something worse going wrong. I’m the type of person who would be arrested for indecent exposure after just barely making it out alive from my house burning down in the middle of the night.

Wiley is really COLD! Funny, I have heard of, not lottery, but retirement, where the person has retired and died before they ever received the first retirement check. That’s COLD, too.

That train has no time table and no conductor. There is only the vaguely seen terminal at some point along the way.

yeah, I’ve had some weird dizzy spells & my eyes going out of focus

which I fear is some awful portent and I’ll die right as we get the election results. If Biden wins, it will be the above.

If 45 does, then it will be sweet escape.

butif it takes dying to balance a Biden win, I’ll do it for my country!

If the grim reaper would go with the times he’d ditch the scythe and just drive over his victims with an overpowered black and tinted truck.

I have learned to believe in the Yin and Yang of life. The balancing of things is sort of relentless.

Luck to me is exactly like The Born Loser strip. 1 good thing, then over the next 20 years its time for Murphy’s law. Whatever can go wrong will, at the worst possible time.

That would be my luck as well.

Waking Ned Devine! A wonderful movie.

Hey, Wiley! Alanis Morissette wants a word with you!

Isn’t this ironic?

I seem to recall reading, not too long ago, where this really happened; some man had won around a quarter-million not long after he’d gotten a terminal diagnosis. I seem to remember he had no immediate family, so he put it all in a trust fund for his nephew’s education.

Not quite on the same level, but I was once dealt a Pinochle hand that had six aces. And six nines.

And isn’t it ironic, don’t you think?

There is no better moment than the instant of getting something wonderful. It rarely lives up to the hype. Larry died at the peak of happiness. Larry wins!

The wife has mixed emotions.

Looking at the pictures he has , his luck has not changed.

Larry’s ship finally came in, but then it sank at the dock and he got stuck with the bill to pull it out.

yep… that’s how it would work for me.

Well, the good news is that the Reaper will allow Larry to stay long enough to watch all his horrible family destroy each other going after the money.

Waitaminnit. This isn’t Al Bundy’s house? :-0

I hope he let his descendants know where he put that ticket!

You’re more likely to be struck by lightning than win the lottery, but everyone thinks they deserve to win the lottery. Way more people die in a particular state every week than win the lottery.

Died the same day you win the lottery shat a bummer.

Trump 4 more years!

True story. I once won $200.00 in the Texas Lottery. A week later my car was stolen, when I got it back, there was $1000.00 dollars in damages.

Brings to mind the parable of the rich landowner who had such a great harvest that he tore down his barns to build bigger barns. “Fool!” said the Angel of the Lord who visited him. “Don’t you know that your life is required of you tonight?”

If it weren’t for Bad Luck, Larry wouldn’t have any luck at all.

My guess is that Larry had a massive fatal heart attack when he found out he won the powerball lottery.

This could apply to Al Bundy

That describes my life.