So I was upstairs in my room typing away doing a couple things at once Chatting with a friend and I had headphones with music just loud enough to drown out the sound of an air purifier but not so loud as to miss the dog downstairs having a conniption fit barking his fool head off. I take out an ear bud and hear people talking down stairs. People I don't know. They came in a window that is normally locked and went out the door leaving it open. I think I am gonna throw up and go buy a bigger bat.
Seriously. Every once in a while when the pot gets over a hundred million I buy a ticket. Some of the $1 goes toward sweetening the pot and the rest goes to building and maintaining parks and playgrounds. I think sort of it is win win.
So a few weeks ago I bought a ticket. Today I got around to scanning it to make sure I lost... but the scanner said to take the ticket to a clerk. Weird. So I go stand in line a little bewildered looking and surely confused to wait. Then there it is, my turn to talk with the tired lady behind the desk. Nearly afraid I hand her the slip of paper that has been in my wallet for weeks. I don't know what to say to her so I remain silent. She does some fiddling around and then hands me $3 and tells me I won.
I was shocked. The first thing to go through my head: "But God, THIS wasn't what I had in mind!" Then I laughed so hard I almost barfed and went and took all my lottery winnings (and some change) and bought myself some celebratory ice cream. I got the good kind. :)
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