A middle aged man hears a voice out of nowhere say: "Sell your house, quit your job, divorce your wife and go to Vegas."
The man thinks to himself, "I love my job, my wife and where I live, why would I want to leave all of that behind?" He quickly forgets about the voice.
A few months later the voice comes back: "Sell your house, quit your job, divorce your wife and go to Vegas."
The man is trying as hard as he can to ignore the voice and get on with his life, but it gets harder each time the voice comes back. Soon the man hears the voice every single day: "Sell your house, quit your job, divorce your wife and go to Vegas."
Finally, one day he says, "Fine, I'll sell my house, quit my job, divorce my wife and go to Vegas."
He bundles all of his worldly wealth into one suitcase and boards the next plane to Vegas. When he lands in Vegas, the voice says, "Go to Caesar's Palace." The man does just that.
Then the voice says, "Make your way to the roulette wheel." The man goes to the roulette wheel. The voice says, "Put everything on 24 red."
The man does that. All of his possessions are on one roulette game.
The ball lands on 17 black. The voice says, "Damn."