She won the lottery and will probably die the next day

I'm sure she's just leaving it all to her cat.

 

Just once I want some recent college grad who is eyeball deep in debt to win a lottery jackpot. It's always someone old.

 

I remember Letterman had a woman in her early 20s on who had just claimed a crazy jackpot, was nice to see someone that young win it.

 

FIFY

 

No husband? Yahtzee!

 

Apparently the old millionaire is a line-cutter. She better give some of this fortune to the mom, or karma is going to smite her something fierce.

http://gma.yahoo.com/woman-let-powerball-winner-ahead-her-no-regrets-130005843--abc-news-topstories.html

 

probate.

nuf said

 

Meh.

Work off your loan, learn the value of a dollar . . . and then get lucky down the road.

Success too soon --- especially unearned success --- is usually success unappreciated.

 

What is the minimum age for winning Powerball and claiming "earned success?"

 

Old people aren't the only ones who win the lottery mega-payoffs. Sometimes, it's a group of white collar drudges from the same cubicle nest or warehouse workers or some bunch like who pool their dough to buy tickets. Then come the inevitable nasty squabbles.
I think it's fascinating that when local TV news does the feature about people buying tickets for the super jackpot drawings, the people always describe what they'd do with the money as if they were winning maybe five million bucks. That's the fiscal ceiling of their imaginations and they're not wrong. Five million free dollars is a lucky unearned reward. Five hundred million dollars is inheriting a new full-time job that's harder than the one you have now.

 

No matter the age, how is spending a buck on a blind draw of numbers considered earned success?