Lottery winnings

Yea! Lest readers get ahead of themselves and congratulate their luck that the author of this rather inane blog had somehow come into a windfall and struck it rich and would now stop publishing drivel once and for all I would want to burst that bubble.

Right away. Meaning no such luck. Well as they say the key to winning a lottery ticket is to first buy one. And me has never and unlikely ever would. So just relax and get used to more drivel down the road. I am not going away on some la la trip never to return to type out a few keystrokes.

Rather I wanted to rant about these so called 'For Dummies' self proclaimed wizards of lore (that they seem to think they are) aka self help gurus. Each time the local Powerball reaches stratospheric levels of potential winnings with many zeroes in front of a 1 or 9 or whatever number you want that to be; these 'let me tell you what not to do' crowds begin to make an appearance.

Not sure why this is. First - none of these clowns have ever won anything in their life, hence the publishing of mantras on some bumf peddled by important sounding names owned by some private equity somewhere designed to avoid paying taxes.

So it is again this January of 2021 and for those that might understand how the daily scratcher or the mega million or whatever brand lottery works there is lot of moolah to be made should your numbers add up.

No idea what that all means again a testament to the fact that I have never indulged. But there are apparently wise old men and women who will not hold back. They publish all sorts of how you should claim the winning jackpot and furthermore use it after. They love to publish the numbers or dollars for a one shot takeaway prize as opposed to a long drawn annuity type payout. They love to present the tax bill that this poor sod will encounter lest they think that the advertised number is what they are going to end up getting cash for.

Truthfully it is as dumb as a door knob of an idea that pontificating on the best way of claiming and using one's lottery winnings as matter of free advice is something worth writing.

The average clown that wins this type of lottery is by design going to come into this fortune as a matter of sheer luck because that is the only thing they are banking on to make a dent in their humdrum life. They are not getting up each morning and devouring these so called publications to chart a game plan for a what if. Even they are smart enough to understand that they are likely to get hit by another car that day than be the winner of some yahoo Superball.

Then coming to the matter of what to do when they win, unless they were the Dalai or an almost enlightened Buddhist, they are not in any mood to use pragmatism in handling ungodly amounts - amounts they probably could not even count to given the task.

I mean seriously - that would be a question worth exploring if the average lumberjack is going to know what 59.6 million is. To them it is lot of money and my troubles are over time. Let them go ahead and enjoy and they never read your stupid story anyway so there is that.

Now that I have got that off my chest it is time to go back to my afternoon nap which happens to be a regular occurrence between some boring corporate type meetings. Covid has made it easy to get these all important naps I tell you. See I am already a winner even in these dire of times.

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