When someone loosely agrees to your bet, but then won’t provide concrete confirmation. If the wager wins, they’ll say they never put it in. However, if it loses, you are expected to pay in full. Normally, this person is prompt with both phone calls and texts. Yet, when even a modest wager is introduced, they will begin a weird game of cat & mouse, often not responding for hours. You are then, consequently, left not knowing whether your bet has been locked in.

The two states of being are as a human being, or a hungry ghost. Semi-regularly you need to ask yourself which you are. Sometimes it is human. Others, alas, it is hungry ghost.

The hungry ghost seeks validity outside of themselves. Someone pining for an indifferent ex is a hungry ghost. Someone who arrives alone at 6:30 on Saturday night to a pub is probably a hungry ghost. Obsessive checking of mobile phones, chat sites or networks are clear signs that one is a hungry ghost.

The best thing to do is just stay home and ride it out. Read a book. Find some good clean fun.

When someone loosely agrees to your bet, but then won’t provide concrete confirmation. If the wager wins, they’ll say they never put it in. However, if it loses, you are expected to pay in full. Normally, this person is prompt with both phone calls and texts. Yet, when even a modest wager is introduced, they will begin a weird game of cat & mouse, often not responding for hours. You are then, consequently, left not knowing whether your bet has been locked in.