Lottery-"winner"!?
Made my evening "lottery-run" tonight; got my
"winning"-ticket and turned to leave the "bandit"-station
and came face-to-face with a "daddy" and his cutie-pie
little 5-year old daughter with blonde-hair and sparkling
blue-eyes dancing with excitement looking at the ticket-marquis.
Daddy had a fist full of winning scratch-off tickets eagerly awaiting
a vacant clerk to cash-out his "bona-fides" Lucky-winner tickets.
"Are we gonna buy some more "winner" scratchers, Daddy?"
Blondie was just so excited! I thought about flying into a "rage"
at "Dear-ole-daddy" about the "evils" of gambling and "child-abuse"
for "contributing to the delinquency of a minor"---So?...I did!
Speaking loudly so all the patrons could hear my "sage"-words,
I began a tirade in the man's face about "sin" and "gambling"
and "food-on-the-table" and "what would his wife, the little-Darlins'
mother have to say if she knew about his outlandish behavior? Whew!
I was just getting warmed-up, in full-stride, feeling like some
T.V.-preacher saving the multitudes in a big stadium somewhere...
I was doing just fine---too...the little girl was barely even crying!
Then, pointing agitatedly at the "old-man" (daddy"), I lost the grip
on my own lottery-tickets and they went flying helter-skelter!!!
I'll give that kid one thing---she was "Quick"...got away with most of them!
Damn!-the-Luck! Bet-cha one of those was the "Big"-winner for tonight.
Yeah!---There is "Truth" in the adage...Mind your own-business! Idiot!
"Live-and-learn!?"---I reckon-so!...Sure-enough!
(I hope some of her "Luck" rubbed-off on me!)
(I hope some of her "Luck" rubbed-off on me!)
Amen!
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