Chapter 01 - A Whole Lotto Surprises
This story is, obviously, fantasy. It is based on what I would like to imagine I would do if I were in similar circumstances. It contains group sex, M/M and F/F sex and semi public sex. If that's not your bag, please stop here. And no, it is only a fantasy - I haven't won the lotto yet.
I never really expected to get rich - who does? It's not like I gamble - I find Vegas annoying, and don't follow sports at all - but every now and then I buy a lotto ticket. I think I won $200 about 30 years ago once, but the vast majority of the time ... zip. So when I bought that ticket, I got home and threw it on my desk with my other pocket stuff and promptly forgot about it. I was as surprised as anyone the next week when I stopped by the 7/11 in the morning for my muffin and OJ and the manager (a nice guy) stopped me and said "Was it you?"
Not having any idea what he might have been talking about I said "Probably? What am I supposed to have done this time?"
"Probably not, then. Somebody bought their winning lotto ticket here."
I had to laugh at that. Me win the lotto? A nice idea, but like I said, I don't win things. I could do a whole Rodney Dangerfield routine on all of the things I haven't won.
"I wish! I am more than ready to retire, but I doubt it was me. I'll have to check my ticket when I get home. Say - doesn't the store that sold the winning ticket get something?"
"Yeah" he grinned. "It's going to be a nice bonus for all of my people. But whoever sold the actual ticket will get a little bit more."
"Well, I hope it's me, then. You always sell me my tickets."
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I didn't really think about it for the rest of the day. I was busy enough to let it fall from my consciousness, and I never win anything, right? But when I got home and fired up my computer I noticed the lotto ticket in the stack of stuff I keep on my desk, and thought *
What the hell?
* and opened another browser window and went to the lotto site.
*
Powerball .... match! Damn - I broke even! First number... match! Second number... holy crap... Third, fourth.... Oh my god, I'm gonna be rich! How many others won? Just me. Comes out to ... 95 Million. Definitely enough to retire on. Now let's see, 60% of that comes out to...52... OK, that's enough. I wonder what the tax load will be?*
Spend ten percent, gift ten percent, invest the rest. And the Lotto office isn't open at night, so... find out what time the lotto office was open, and where it was.
I put the ticket in an envelope and opened up a window to a real estate site. I knew what kind of house I wanted - now to see if it existed.
Thursday morning I got up, called into the office and told them I'd be late - I had a slight 'personal emergency' I had to take care of. Then I dressed very carefully, combed my hair and drove up to the lotto office
The lotto people had some questions to make sure I was on the level, but I had tried to plan ahead and brought my driver's license, my social security card and a certified copy of my birth certificate, plus a couple of electric bills and rent reciepts, so that once they wee sure it was me whod bought the ticket ("Where did you buy it? When? From who?), they got a signed statement, some publicity snaps an the like, and then wrote out a check and got it signed and co-signed in return for the ticket. Maybe twenty minutes work for almost forty million dollars. Not a bad hourly rate. There was also a tax guy there, and he gave me some forms to fill out and warned me they would be due pronto.
From there I drove to my credit union (after changing into a less horrible shirt and combing my hair the way I normally did. Any stalkers who used the publicity snaps would have to see past the surface) to deposit the check. The people there were friendly as always, but were nearly as shocked as I was when they saw the check. Fortunately (with planning) I'd asked to talk to one of the loan people instead of going directly to a teller, so few people knew what was happening. The loan officer called the lotto office, verified the check number and name and all that stuff, and then created a set of nested accounts - each one at or under the FDIC insurance limit - and I thanked him profusely, asked for a thousand dollars in cash (because ... come on - that's what you do, right?), and went to work.
When I got to the office I checked in with my boss, then went to the store room and grabbed an empty paper box, then went to my office and after logging into my computer, started sorting through all of the crap in my desk, putting personal stuff in the box while running the daily reports and doing the usual daily drudgery. Once I got things up and running and the immediate stuff taken care of, and the box filled and my desk emptied, I walked to my boss' door.
"You busy?" I asked. Her door was open, and she was working on ... something, as always. When she turned to face me I (as always) admired her beauty and her ready smile, and (as always) reminded myself that her husband was on the SWAT team.
"The usual" she said. "What's up?"
"I quit" I said, and watched her expression change... and then change again.
"You're serious?"
"Yep."
"So this is your two weeks notice?"
"Nope - this is my two minute warning."
"What?"
"You know me. Under normal conditions I'd have stayed on and trained my replacement, but ... things have changed here lately, and not for the better. So I got a better offer, and I'm taking it."
"I hope it's a really good offer!"
"Passable. Pays about 40 million." I teased, and then the lights went on in her head.
"You won the lotto!?"
"Yup. And all of those times when I said I'd leave a hole in the air if I won? They were true."
She'd finally realized I wasn't kidding. "Well I'll miss you."
"I'll miss you, too - and a few other people. But not enough people any more to tie me down. I just wanted you to know first. Now I'm gonna go talk to HR and the boss." I gavce a little wave, and turned and walked away. It's the best way, after all.
The Office Manager/HR person was not as understanding or forgiving. But she was also enough less of a people person that she got the paperwork rolling without too much complaining, and then I walked by the Boss' office and told her I was leaving and went back to my desk to finish packing.