The best present I got for my 50th birthday came from a friend who bought me two really large bags of Minties.

The reason this was so appropriate is for as long as I can remember, I have had a penchant for betting Minties, and the truth is in 6028 bets during the past decade or so, I have won about five times.

Few enough that I’m always shocked when I do win.

So the idea was that I could repa...