Yesterday, at a bank, while waiting for some assistance, a stranger also waiting for a customer service banker asked me,
“Are YOU THE winner of the lottery!?”
This gentleman asked, not jokingly, but seriously, so I was taken aback.
???
me: “Ummm…hah?” totally dumb-founded confused … “what?”
He: “I thought YOU could be that lottery winner.” finally getting the mistaken identity …thinking… oh, wow …WISH!
me: “why? Did someone win in this town?”
He: “Yes, a big one – didn’t you hear about it?”
me “No, I’ve never bought a lottery ticket in my life – How much did she win?”
He: “$228 million jackpot!”
Whaatttt??!!!!
Whatever possessed him to think I could actually be such a winner of fortune? It’s INSANE!
Insane – the way David Chang, Chef of Momofuku would say… just Insane!!! Me?
I guess this interaction made me think about the image I project. I wondered:
DO I look like a 200+million $ Jackpot lottery winner?
According to the local news, the winner turns out to be a man and he “told the California Lottery he has no plans for the money yet.
‘I just want to be a normal man,’ is what he said. It is reported that the winner chose the annuity payment option which will give him the full $228,467,735 jackpot paid out over 30 years.
*** So now the question is – should I be flattered to think that someone actually thought that I could be that
LUCKY?
And if you were the winner of a jackpot, what would you do?
How would you spend that ?
Would you want to be just a normal person or ?
It’s interesting to note that lottery winners are not necessarily leading a more fulfilled or happy life. Really.
