Today, I put $0.75 into the vending machine on the first floor of my office building for a PayDay candy bar, and it gave me three. PayDays. Three PayDays. All at once.

I stared down into the little drop bin through the glass for a moment in disbelief. I thought maybe it was a trap. Maybe a troll lives inside that vending machine and feeds on the hands of unsuspecting vendees when they reach in to claim their treat(s). But that doesn't make any sense because you have to reach your hand in whether it gives you one or three.

But it has to mean something, right? Either it's Buddha trying to tell me that I'm the next Dalai Lama, or it's some horrible, ancient SureVend curse. Like it's testing my virtue to see if I'll take more than what I paid for. Which, of course, I did. So that means something like 200 years' bad juju for my descendents? I'm going to cross my fingers for the Dalai Lama option. I should probably get Tibet on the phone...