Number 11

This is the story of a man who has a pretty classic life. Single, he has a normal job in a bank, and he lives in a normally sized apartment in NYC. One night, as he is going to sleep, he hears a voice in his head that says : "Quit your job, sell your apartment and all your goods, go to Las Vegas, enter the "Royal Casino" and go to the Roulette : bet everything on the number 11, red color.". Surprised, he doesn't understand and think it's because he is too tired. But in the morning, as he wakes up, he hears the voice again in his head saying "Quit your job, sell your apartment and all your goods, go to Las Vegas, enter the "Royal Casino" and go to the Roulette : bet everything on the number 11, red color." For a complete month, he hears that voice again and again, and gets tired of it, so he decides to go to his doctor. "Doctor" he said. "Everyday and night I hear that voice in my head that repeats the same thing, I don't know what to do". The doctor gives him some medicine and tells him that it's gonna be fine. Unfortunately, the medicines didn't work, and the voice begins to intensify, talking even during the day : ""Quit your job, sell your apartment and all your goods, go to Las Vegas, enter the "Royal Casino" and go to the Roulette : bet everything on the number 11, red color. DO IT, THIS IS YOUR LIFE, DO IT". The man is really tired after 6 months of hearing the voice, and he begins to think that after all, this is maybe a sign, his destiny. So he goes to his job, see his boss and quit. He goes to a real estate agent, and sell everything he has in his apartment. He books a plane ticket to Vegas, and goes there only with his suit and his suitcase full of cash. Arriving there, he hears the voice saying "Go to royal road and enter the royal casino". He did. As he entered the casino, he hears the voice saying 'Go to the table near the woman in red'. As he approached, the voice says 'STOP, it's here, I can feel it, this is the winning wheel, the winning roulette, it's time, bet everything on the number 11, red color.'. The man asks the dealer, and bet everything on the number 11, red color. The roulette turns, and turns, and turns... After half a minute later, the roulette eventually stops, and the dealer says, with astonishment : "9, black". The man doesn't understand. And the voice says "Crap..."