some have it thrown at them, for free or even are paid for it in multiple ways. after a famine period of decades, it finally happened to me out of the blue, most improbably. many middle aged women are very lonely.
re: the pet rock, I remember being envious of the diabolically clever entrepreneurial crapitalist mind that thought of this before I did, and managed to get filthy rich off of it in no time at all.