Altered Beast wrote:

if you ever do something like this,

My biggest regret within a day after making the bet was to not set a
time limit.  It was just - will russia invade or not?

Maybe you understand, I was sitting there in a bad spot, it takes
millennia to prove a not.  I think it was two weeks after the bet that
Putin moved in and it was big news.

Not necessarily get it in writing, but set a reasonable framework on
both sides of the bet.

I'm still curious why Putin flopped about like a goldfish on the border
for such a long time before actually taking action.

If he had retreated back to the village, the guy would have just said,
"he went back for his torch." Do you see what I mean? It's indefinite, waiting for war.

If I had said two weeks maybe I should have taken the original bet of
one hundred dollars.

I wasn't really on top of my shit. I was behind the curve so to speak. Evidently some people were fooled by Putin's ruse at the border for a
couple weeks or a month.

I gave him two envelopes at two different times, one with $10 and the
other with $15.

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