Won!...  but Lost?

So when the lottery gets pretty high I usually buy a ticket. I think it would be kinda cool to win like 110 million dollars or whatever. I'd even be willing to split it if need be and be ok with that! 55 million would be plenty totally too! I've thought alot about it and decided I would opt for the lump sum payout. I'd immediately buy myself a way coolio apartment and maybe a car with flames and maybe like a boat or something. Then I'd do like... I dunno... T-bills? Or Escrow? Or something? And I'd start some kind of charity and be a good guy. And Roscoe would get some stuff too!

But that ain't happened yet. I figure you gotta be pretty friggin lucky to win the lottery (I'm thinking of a number 1-30,000,000... umm... guess... ) so it made me a little nervous when I used up some luck the other day. I was driving around with a friend of mine listening to WPLJ and the DJ told us that they were giving away American Idol concert tickets to the whatever number caller. We both busted out our cellphones to try and win. I dialed the WPLJ number... and it rang on the first try. I figured I dialed wrong or something...

A radio voice guy answers the phone and is like, 'Hello?' I'm like...'Hello?' He's like, 'What number caller do you want to be?' I was like, 'Umm... 21st?' He was like, 'Are you sure you don't want to be the 25th caller?' I was like, 'Do I wanna be?' He was like, 'Yeah you do...' I was like, 'Ok.... 25 then!' He was like, 'You're the 25th caller!!! You won Idol concert tickets!!!' We went nuts in the car about winning! Yelling and stuff! It was weird. He asked my age and I was frankly embarrassed to admit it but promised him I watched the show and I was psyched. They took down my name and address.

A minute later on the radio I hear my conversation talking to the radio guy (recorded) and us yelling about winning. I was like, 'Holy smokes! I really won the American Idol tickets! On the radio!!!' I never won nuttin before like that.

Yadda it's all very coolio and all -- but I worried that statistically it might have messed with my chances of winning the lottery or at least car or something that I really want. Did I use up some precious luck.... on Idol? Like next time I buy a lottery ticket if I miss winning the big money by one number... will my Idol tickets win be to blame? Did I soak up some luck on that? Will I be at the American Idol concert all grumpy because I won $790 instead of millions? Because of this stupid concert?! I dunno. Maybe it doesn't work that way. I should just be happy to win something.

And one thing I know is...  I'm going to the Idol concert totally!! In your face! Yeah I'll friggin be that old man bopping along while the Idols torturously sing The Do Run Run Run or some crap! Uh huh... that guy that all the parents will be warily keeping an eye on wondering what the hell I'm doing there...

ok bye!
tOdd

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