Yesterday on the way home from work as we (Chris, Andy, Smithsonian and myself- that’s our daily carpool because we’re just big city like that) came to a stop at a stop light and I happened to notice out of the corner of my eye a shiny (extremely dirty) $20 bill lying on the ground outside. Without a second thought I bolted out of the car and grabbed for that $20 before Homeless Joe standing ten steps away could have beat me to it. Now that’s what I call instinct.
I got back in the car and the guys all looked at me like “what in the hell just happened,” until I whipped out my new treasure. Chris immediately told me to inspect it real good to make sure it wasn’t the old “poop dollar prank.” Which thankfully, it wasn’t. It would have had to have been a real high rolling prankster to waste a perfectly good $20 bill just for the sake of a joke. Although the poop dollar is usually well worth it…
Naturally, I spent the new found $20 on 10 lottery tickets. Jk! But it is up to 310 mil, so I figure it would just be dumb of me not to. When you’re broke that’s really the only logical thing to do when you come across a little luck, right? At least that’s one of the lessons I took away from the summer of 2008 when I worked for the Nebraska lottery and traveled from one county fair to the next, selling scratch tickets to the good people of the D.C. Lynch Carnival (who travelled right beside us as if we were a team.) Just for the record we WEREN’T a team, we just had similar schedules is all.
So yeah, second week of February 2012 is going pretty well. Especially when I consider the fact last year at this time I was getting evicted from our apartment in Topeka and was having to scour the renters market to find a home suitable for a big dog and an even bigger whiney bitch. Chris was so hard to please. Me however, I would have been content living anywhere in that wonderful little town. Sometimes I miss living next to the Frito Lay company and the smell of beer farts it leaked through the town between the hours of 6 a.m.-3p.m. during mass chip production time.
Anyway, now I just need to scrounge up some money to purchase a L’Oreal highlight kit and some Crest White strips and this might be the best month ever.
