Carl was tired to the bones and felt disgruntled about his job. It was mere drudgery with little pay.
The new foreman was also an ass who kept yelling at people.
He regretted dropping out of college and wished he could start all over. Girls and booze was a pastime that got old fast and with Sue pregnant with a second child. He worried.
Break time was a little reprieve, so he ambled over to the deli where the other men gathered for a quick lunch.
All eyes were glued to the excited TV presenter who called out the winning lottery numbers. Each man read his ticket hopefully.
Carl paid no mind. He had bought just one ticket for reasons he couldn’t explain.
The cashier exclaimed that the ticket had been sold in the deli.
Each man checked his stub again and he fumbled in the back pocket of his dirty jeans to find his.
The ground rushed to meet him in dead faint. He had the winning number.
© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
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Awesome 🙂
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Thank you 🙂
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Carl’s world had just changed with that winning number. Reminds me that our lives can take a good turn any day. Lovely piece Jackie.
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I had that very thought at the back of my mind when writing it. Thanks dear 🙂
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Boom! That was great!
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Thank you Meg 🙂
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Carl just made a whole lot of new friends!😊
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That’s true! His winning guarantees that 🙂
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Now he can say, “Take this job and shove it!” LOL! Carl’s life is going to change but I’m not sure it will change for the better. I have heard that many winners have wished they didn’t win but many more have been thankful that they won. GREAT story, Jacqueline! I would love to win the lottery. If I found that I regretted winning, then I would give it all to charities. LOL!
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You think like I do my lady. Let me win it first, then we’ll see how it goes. I’ve also read quite a bit about winners who end up worse of and I keep wondering what happened. I hope Carl uses his wisely.
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A lovely ending. I keep hoping for a winning number even though I never play lottery:-)
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You are like me Khaya. We don’t play, yet we secretly hope to win 🙂
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Haha, good one. Now that Carl is a rich man, is he going to finish college? Or who needs classroom when money is a plenty 🙂
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Most times these winners just go into spending overdrive. I hope he made some sense of his life.
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Glad that Carl won the lottery 🙂 Later, I guess, Carl would give an earful to the foreman and would quit the job 😀
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You are so right. He blistered his ears and resigned, with the entire squad following him to celebrate his good fortune 🙂
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That was lovely. Our lives can take a turn at any time but we have to sow something first.
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Truly true. The next moment could hold wonderful surprises, but you are right. We have to sow first.
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Exactly.
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wonder how much he won?
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I think it was in the neighbourhood of $5,000,000. Lucky fella 🙂
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This is great. I like it because he is a really hardworking guy. He may not have always made the best choices in the past but he has learned and works hard. I think he is the ideal kind of guy you’d like to see win the lottery. Great job telling the story 🙂
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Yes I like him too. I think he will make good use of his fortune. Thank you Mandi 🙂
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Great story. I might have had the same reaction.
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I would have. Winning 5 million dollars is not a joke 😉
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And for that amount of money, I would gladly let Uncle Sam have his portion.
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Me too 🙂
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A new day ahead! Well done!
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