Screaming Bean |
Friday, August 19, 2005
Life is never truly dull here. I may not have a job, I may be whiling away my hours cleaning things, but then something comes along to turn your world a little bit off kilter. Wednesday, late night, my cell phone rang. It woke up the spouse, but I was actually awake at the time. It was my mother. I figured someone was dead. I know she keeps late hours, but why call this late unless someone was dead? I'm asked a question regarding the state lottery. I didn't know the answer and had to bring up the computer and check a couple webpages. Seems my mother, while not "hitting the jackpot", seemed to have done quite well for herself. Well, that was far more exciting than dead people. The particular goodness of the situation is that she loses her job in two weeks due to a merger. It had been weighing on all of our collective minds. This is an additional bit of cushion she didn't have before. So I went with her to collect yesterday and we had pizza. It was far more exciting than it sounds, believe me. The way we see it, now if I ever have a client who hits a jackpot, I'll know what to do. Talk about niche work.
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