MY NUMBERS CAME UP?

Friday

March 30

23:50

I couldn’t stop myself from day-dreaming (or is it, wee-hour-of-the-mornin’ dreamin’) about the mega million jackpot that’s been drivin’ the Americans nuts. Wit the BBC, CNN and the social networkin’ sites goin’ on and on about it, there’s no way you could ignore that shit. The media freakin’ went into over drive, talkin’ and analyzin’ what the odds of winnin’ the pot were.

Professors of mathematics and all kinds of folks were tossin’ in their two cents sayin’ stuffs like ‘’the odd of winnin’ is 176 million to 1’’ or that your chances of winnin’ this mother of all lotteries is the same as doin’ a couple of thousand round trips around the globe on foot!

Wait for it, here’s my favorite of the bunch “the odds of one getting struck by lightning on a rainin day on a golf course wit a golf club in ones hand was even better.”

Yeah, those are the kinda things you get for bein’ a news junkie, huh? Funny thing is, I used to look at my pops funny back in the day for bein’ hooked on news. Well am on the same path now, I guess shit like that comes wit age, huh?

Saturday

March 31

06:00

Sittin’ up in bed, I listened to the play back of John Crow (the mega millions show host) reelin’ out the numbers on the ball as the gods of odds drop ‘em out…those life-changin’ winnin’ numbers (46 23 38 4 2).

Saturday

05:38

I woke up havin’ only slept for three and half hours, i reached for my cell phone to check if December 12, 2012 hadn’t come early, you never know wit all that’s goin’ on in the world today, Armageddon could bust in the door anytime while the world sleeps. I checked my facebook and twitter pages, nothin’ life-changin’, jus the usuals. A couple of clicks later, I was in my yahoo mail and somethin’ I saw in there gave me somethin’ to stupidly smile about.

I couldn’t kill the smile on my face as I read through the mail that was purportedly sent by Powerball company (the organizers of the Mega Millions Lottery) informin’ me that my numbers had come up…am a jackpot winner!

What!

Am a mutherfuckin’ jackpot winner! My daydream had come true. Somebody up there peeped into my daydream and freakin’ granted my unspoken wish.

Questions like “what if I won?” “What would I do wit the loot” that’s held my head in a choke-hold in the hours before the draw came to life again.

I know we’ve all at one time been involved in that vain mental exercise, imaginin’ all kinds of scenario and what we’d do when we win a jackpot, right?

What, you’ll never indulge your ass in such lazy man’s daydream!

You’re not jus liar, you’re a mutherfuckin’ liar!

Ok liar, hear’s your chance to daydream. Nobody’s watchin’. Go ahead and daydream about winnin’ that big assed jackpot or comin’ into sudden wealth. Lol!

Back to the congratulatory letter sent to by Powerball and Multi-State Lottery Association (MUSL)

The moment I saw the mail, I knew a scammer were workin’ overtime. I mean, how can a nigga livin’ somewhere in Africa win some American game show he didn’t go in for? What’s the chance of that…it’s gotta be the same as Angie Jolie bein’ my booty call, right?

Of course am not gon win jack from that jackpot ‘cause I didn’t play but then again, how could I? My ass is a million miles away from the action zone and even if I was there, am almost sure I wouldn’t play cause am not a lotto kinda guy but hey, whether I play lotto or not, this is the mother of all jackpots, the biggest fuckin’ jackpot in the history of the world, a jaw-droppin $164 million for some lucky mutherfucker (s)

April 11

02:01

I’d written this piece more than a week ago but somehow I didn’t finish it, maybe I even forgot about it until this mornin’ when I heard the news headline on BBC about what some of the jackpots winners and they said they gon’ do wit their loots.

Three school workers from Maryland (two teachers and an administrator), one winner from Kansas and a winner who’s yet to come forth in Illinois. These folks now talk funny, as in rich funny; talkin’ bout purchasin’ new homes in posh neighborhoods, back-packin’ through Europe, coolin in the wine country in Italy and shit.

In the meanwhile, keep thinkin’ about winnin’ a jackpot but before you tip the fuck over that sanity line, use the usual “if you don’t play, you don’t win” tagline used by lotteries around the world to bring my ass back to reality…now go buy a lotto or fuck lotto and work hard or better still, do both!