You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy™
The Powerball Jackpot.
“all it takes is one.”
A ticket in your pocket is probably as worthless as the paper it is printed on, but as long as you have it, you have something.
You have hope.
You have a dream.
You have a rainbow with a leprechaun doing beer bongs on a radiant keg of gold.
The Powerball is at 800 million dollars.
The odds of winning it are 292 million to one.
I have a better chance of giving birth to quintuplets. And I’m a man.
You have a better chance of being killed by a meteor than winning.
You have a better chance of becoming an American Billionaire than you do winning the powerball Saturday night.
But Americans don’t care about odds.
It only takes one ticket, I heard over and over again today.
By the time the drawing comes Saturday night, the jackpot could be close to 1 billion dollars.
A Billion dollar Powerball?
It’s hard to wrap your head around a billion dollars.
What would you do with 1 billion dollars, I asked 10 people outside the store today.
The concept was hard to fathom.
They were all very conservative in their answers.
I’d go on a trip around the world.
I’d buy my children new cars.
I’d give most of it to charity.
A billion dollars is just not a number we are use to thinking about.
I interviewed the CEO of the Tennessee Lottery today about the drawing.
She said it is the biggest in the history of the world.
I laughed.
The history of the world?
Yes, the history of the world.
The biggest jackpot before this was a mere $590 million dollars.
I’m spoiled. I don’t even play the lottery unless it’s flirting with 1/2 a billion dollars.
As long as you have a ticket in your pocket, you have a chance.
And if you have a chance, you have a dream.
And to have a dream is fun.
It was fun to share stories with regular Americans today.
Some people said they had the winning ticket.
“Don’t even bother,” one lady said waving her ticket in my face. “I got the winning ticket right here,” she laughed out loud.
We researched crazy stuff like how many Lear Jets you can buy at 21 million dollars apiece.
in case you are wondering? 38.
How about Rolls Royces? you can buy 2,400 each costing about $325,000.
After Saturday night, someone or some group will be very very happy.
Reporters will stand outside the store where the ticket was purchased.
There will be speculation by the paparazzi.
“Who is the newest billionaire?”
While the newest billionaire gets his affairs in order, the powerball jackpot will reset to 20 million.
20 MILLLION?
Such a pittance.
Can you imagine?
Why even waste my $2 for a 20 million payout.
The nerve of them.
Ha.
So for the next two days.
I have a ticket in my pocket.
Will I win?
I have a better chance of passing a buick through my colon tonight.
But do I enjoy the feeling of what if?
You bet I do.
As the man outside the store told me.
“It only takes one.”
Life’s Crazy™