Lottery
What would you do if you won the lottery? Most people I know would blow it on a mansion or something like that. My mom would buy a house in Seattle (which we might do anyways...). Me, I would buy lots of cool stuff, but keep my same house. Like, I would get 10 or so PSPs, and give them to my friends, and just keep one. And a whole pile of new games. And like, an Intel Based Mac (those sound WAY too good to be true), and the website address www.burninate.com, and I would then buy the Homestar Runner company. I love that dude! Post what you would buy if you won, please. And if it's a mansion, lie. ;-)
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If I won the lottery, I would travel all over the world with my grandchildren. I'd get them very lightwight computers for their games and we'd stay in wifi first-class hotels, so they wouldn't get homesick for thier electronics. We'd float along the canals of Venice and climb the monasteries of Meteora; we'd shop in Singapore and and go to the opera in Sydney. In Spain (my grandchildren are learning Spanish), we'd hang out at the beach, photograph the Getty at Bilboa, and dance to Flamenco guitar. We'd drop by the Riviera to visit Don (he'll be there in April studying French) and then spend a week at least in Paris seeing the sights and eating in five-star restaurants. And that's not all, but it would be a start.
(Lane talking: That's my Grandma. I just hope that we'd take my parents too ;-)
Posted by: Linda Reinfeld | January 17, 2006 06:39 PM
Actually yes, I'd take your whole family, but I'd have to win a really big lottery to do all that. There's a real-life precedent, though. Andre Dubus III, the guy who wrote the best-selling novel House of Sand and Fog, was a practically penniless writer until Oprah picked HSF for her book club -- and he knew that was as good as winning a million dollars. The first thing he did was take his whole family -- parents, children and in-laws -- to New York City for a long weekend (they live near Boston and had never been to NY). They stayed in first-class hotels and saw the sights and went to the theater and ate in great restaurants and rode around Central park in a horse-drawn buggy -- the works. They had a ball. He told us that even without buying a thing, the weekend ended up costing over $5000. Cash. Before his book was picked up by Oprah he had so little money he didn't even have a credit card. His book is kind of depressing, but he's a really fun person -- I got to meet him at RIT.
Posted by: Linda Reinfeld | January 21, 2006 05:41 AM