As part of my ongoing experiment to see if you can spend a silver £2 coin in everyday places... I "BET" you can't guess where I went to spend it today?
OK that was a bad pun but yes, you guessed it I went to my local bookmakers to try and place some bets using my coin.
First up "the Irish lottery". Pick 3 numbers, match the 3 numbers from a draw of 6 and win £300 for a £0.50 bet. So I took 2 of them. =£1
Next up a little 4 fold footy acca (or a 4 fold football accumulator haha) on the EFL cup. So for you odd folk across the pond, by football I mean soccer. With another £1 bet a possible return of £57.75, but I'm not holding my breath as I went for a few underdogs just to make the bet worthwhile.
Now I'm not a gambling man, I usually like to put my money on sure things such as gold and silver but for the purpose of this experiment I thought why not give it a go.
So if you're a gambling person, which way would you go?? Did they take the silver coin YES or NO??
Well I'll put you out your mystery... The experiment continues, I still have her. The 2 young cashiers working behind the desk were incredible helpful and one of them even knew it was a silver Britannia. Neither of them were sure they could take it and with no managers on site they decided not to accept it, although the one chap did offer me £2 for it... Good try kid!
Like I said I'm not a gambling man and although it's not illegal I always feel wrong after placing a bet so to balance karma out I went a few doors down to my local charity shop - cancer research Wales and left a little donation in the charity box. Plus if I do win I will donate the winnings to them too.
So where next?? Someone suggested a fast food chain, so maybe there.