You drive home exhausted after a long, hard day of work. After you turn a few more corners you realize your gas tank is etching dangerously close to the red. You squint your eyes, searching for the nearest gas station before spotting and pulling into the Shell gas station, which is a few miles away from your house. You park your car at the pump, and go inside the convenience store to purchase a large Root beer. It’s a scorching summer day, and you fill the plastic cup all the way to the brim with cold ice, and Root bear. While in line you absent mindedly gaze at the television where a woman, who won the Lottery, excitedly talks about all things she will do with the money. Your no longer listening to the women on the Television anymore, because
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When it comes to Powerball There are 175,223,510 possible Powerball combinations so winning on a single ticket comes down to a 1 in 175 million chance. There is a 1 in 135000 chance of being struck by lightning, 1 in 1,600,000 chance that you are hit by a stray asteroid, and a 1 in 60,000 chance you are sucked up by a tornado. So you are over 100 times more likely to be killed by an asteroid, 1296 times more likely to be struck by lightning, and 2916 times more likely of being sucked up by a tornado, then you are of winning the Powerball. What does happen when people are the lucky 1 in 175,000,000, …show more content…
Some lottery winners spend their money on lavish, and beautiful things like Lara and roger Griffith who won the lottery in 2006, they used there 1.8 million, to buy their dream home together. Along with their Dream house, they bought other properties to rent out, two Porsches, and even invested in the stock market. However, by 2012 they had lost all their money just like so many other lottery winners. "It's natural to want to spend money on nice things once you receive a windfall…it is very easy to lose track of how much you have spent. Many don't realize this until it is too late."
When it comes to Powerball There are 175,223,510 possible Powerball combinations so winning on a single ticket comes down to a 1 in 175 million chance. There is a 1 in 135000 chance of being struck by lightning, 1 in 1,600,000 chance that you are hit by a stray asteroid, and a 1 in 60,000 chance you are sucked up by a tornado. So you are over 100 times more likely to be killed by an asteroid, 1296 times more likely to be struck by lightning, and 2916 times more likely of being sucked up by a tornado, then you are of winning the Powerball. What does happen when people are the lucky 1 in 175,000,000, …show more content…
Some lottery winners spend their money on lavish, and beautiful things like Lara and roger Griffith who won the lottery in 2006, they used there 1.8 million, to buy their dream home together. Along with their Dream house, they bought other properties to rent out, two Porsches, and even invested in the stock market. However, by 2012 they had lost all their money just like so many other lottery winners. "It's natural to want to spend money on nice things once you receive a windfall…it is very easy to lose track of how much you have spent. Many don't realize this until it is too late."