The virtue of patience

Not that I'm promoting gambling but it's the larger point --

Patience pays off for $70 million Powerball winners
Jul 29th 2015

Associated Press via AOL

 ST. LOUIS (AP) – For two decades, Tom Rea of St. Louis played the same Powerball numbers.

It finally paid off — in a big way.

The Missouri Lottery on Wednesday introduced the 62-year-old Rea and his wife, Cathy, as winners of a $70 million Powerball jackpot from the July 4 drawing. The couple claimed the prize at the Missouri Lottery headquarters in Jefferson City on Friday.

The winning numbers, a combination of family birthdays, matched all five white balls and the Powerball. Rea purchased the winning ticket at a Gas Mart store on Hampton Avenue in south St. Louis.

Rea says he had been playing the same number combination every Wednesday and Saturday for 23 years.

For most of us I think patience would pay by socking away for 23 years the money we would otherwise spend on the lottery.   

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