The Money Menace I am Jerald Griffith, just a normal seventeen year old boy who lives in Michigan. It is 2012 and I have two annoying younger sisters and a twenty year old brother. My brother is constantly bragging that he has a ton of money so I have decided that on my eighteenth birthday I am getting a lottery ticket; luckily my birthday is on June seventh and it is May twenty-third so I only need to wait fifteen more long, painstaking days. Although the chances of winning the lottery are about one in fourteen million, I believe that I could win because in the last four years I have won two cars, seven bikes, and a trampoline, all of which I sold. With the money I bought a million dollar machine that was one sale for one-hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, exactly the amount I had. The machine was much cheaper than its original cost
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on. I waited the longest hour of my life but finally the news channel popped up.
They announced, “We are going to announce the winner in two minutes so get your tickets ready and hope for the best.” [two minutes later] “The lucky winner of this years two hundred and seventy five million dollar lottery has the numbers 6529.”
Immediately I grabbed a pencils and wrote the number down and carefully looked at the four numbers on my ticket…..and they matched.
“Oh my gosh, I can’t believe I just won two hundred and seventy five million dollars on my eighteenth birthday” I screamed.
After coming to my senses, I picked up the phone and called the number listed for if you win. At first the man who answered the phone thought this was a prank so he hung up. I called the number back and talked seriously so he wouldn’t hang up again, I talked to the man and he called the police to escort me to the bank. When I got to the bank, a woman took my ticket and put it through a scanner to make sure it was real. The scanning ended and she
on. I waited the longest hour of my life but finally the news channel popped up.
They announced, “We are going to announce the winner in two minutes so get your tickets ready and hope for the best.” [two minutes later] “The lucky winner of this years two hundred and seventy five million dollar lottery has the numbers 6529.”
Immediately I grabbed a pencils and wrote the number down and carefully looked at the four numbers on my ticket…..and they matched.
“Oh my gosh, I can’t believe I just won two hundred and seventy five million dollars on my eighteenth birthday” I screamed.
After coming to my senses, I picked up the phone and called the number listed for if you win. At first the man who answered the phone thought this was a prank so he hung up. I called the number back and talked seriously so he wouldn’t hang up again, I talked to the man and he called the police to escort me to the bank. When I got to the bank, a woman took my ticket and put it through a scanner to make sure it was real. The scanning ended and she