My lucky weekend

 Friday night I found a dollar at the gas station. Saturday morning I found two $20 on Chestnut Street, behind the Trader Joe's. I used the dollar I found Friday to buy a lotto ticket (yes, I'm numerically illiterate, whattayougunnadoaboutit?) . I got three numbers and won $10, more than I've ever won on the lotto before.

I gave the $40 to the All Saint's food closet, because after I thought about it for a while I realized that I'm rich enough that $40 doesn't seem like a lot of money. There's been a cheque for $40 in my wallet for more than two weeks because I can't be bothered to go out of my way to the ATM to deposit it.

Much like the time I thought it was happy/important when everything in my house was clean, I began to wonder, when did I begin to think of $40 as not very much money? Back in 1991 I was living on Fremont Street and near that same Trader Joe's there was an abandoned quarter in one of the newspaper machines. I nabbed it and walked to the Safeway, where that quarter paid for several days of carrots and potatoes. They were having a root vegetable sale, like three pounds for a dollar.

Maybe I should complain a little less about having to be an adult. And maybe I'll use the $10 from the lotto to buy some ice-cream.

A virtuous meme

Adding the meme rules:

Guidelines:
1. Post three links to humor you have found on the web which have made you laugh. Even better if they made you laugh so hard you had trouble breathing.
2. Each should have a description -- no naked links!
3. Post a link to the specific journal entry where you got this meme/game -- this will let readers follow the link-chain to get even more fun sites.
4. Ideally, your own entry should not be friends-locked.

My choices:

1. Things my Girlfriend and I have argued about. An English man and a German woman hold each other responible for the sin of thier nations.
2. Sauron's I stood next to the Emperor of the World at McDonald's! thread on the Straight Dope Message Board. Regisiter as a guest, and search for posts by Master Wang-ka, Scylla or Sampiro.
3. Another Straight Dope gem, Funny things said during love making/intimate moments... 

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