jumpinjacko
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posted on August 22, 2001 02:43:25 PM new
Just wanted to say...It wont change me.... NOT ..KISS MY EBAY BUTT BY BY.....
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EBAY ID
JUMPIN*JACK
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zilvy
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posted on August 22, 2001 02:48:34 PM new
Heard tell there was a fella down the road apiece around the bend at the bottom of the hill who said,"Waaall if I won, I'd pay off a few bills, buy a new motorcycle, git my kids some shews. O yeah an put a new roof on the shed! I'd still go to work cause.....I be dummer than a box of rocks!!"
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Linda_K
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posted on August 22, 2001 03:25:45 PM new
Yep....we took a little day trip to MO recently to buy our tickets. Can't get them here in AR.
We've got the winning ticket, I'm sure. What are the chances? Something like 1 in 80 million.
Well.....nothing wrong with dreaming. 
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Femme
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posted on August 22, 2001 03:34:17 PM new
I could just SCREAM!!!!
My husband had to go to Virginia today through W. Va. and I forgot to have him stop off for tickets. 
And, I just know we would have hit.
Dreaming's good.
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mybiddness
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posted on August 22, 2001 03:37:51 PM new
This reminds me. Not long ago my daughter who works for customer service at a bank got a phone call from a guy who was so excited that she said he was almost incoherent. She could hear a lot of racket in the background. He wanted to know if his transfer had come in. When she pulled up his account she saw that he had just had a transfer of over 40 million dollars.
He was 18 years old and had won a state lottery. I think she said it was from Oregan.
Not paranoid anywhere else but here!
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Linda_K
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posted on August 22, 2001 03:41:47 PM new
Hi femme - Well...maybe he'll remember on his own if he's driving by the stores that are selling them. Been watching the news and the lines are growing everywhere.
So.....dream away. Oh...and good luck.
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Hjw
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posted on August 22, 2001 03:43:20 PM new
Femme
Me too. Now, I'll have to adjust to being dumb and barefooted for the rest of my life...
just like Zilvy's friend. I do have a bicycle but that dam shed will just have to leak.
LoL
What a bummer!!!
Helen
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Linda_K
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posted on August 22, 2001 03:48:48 PM new
Hi mybiddness - WOW!!! See...just goes to show it is possible.
I worked in San Jose with a guy who's F-I-L won 3 million. That was probably 12 -15 years ago. He was walking on clouds for days. Biggest grin you'd ever see and it wasn't even his.
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Linda_K
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posted on August 22, 2001 03:52:16 PM new
Hey jumpinjacko - Would you consider it off topic if we shared what we'd do with the money if we won?
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jumpinjacko
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posted on August 22, 2001 04:38:49 PM new
I would love that linda...Tell me please..
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EBAY ID
JUMPIN*JACK
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Linda_K
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posted on August 22, 2001 04:59:47 PM new
Thanks, jumpinjacko. I wish others would post what they'd do if they won also.
It's funny because just last night my husband was telling me what the jackpot was up to and we started sharing....what if's. Dreaming...
We verbally made a list of each family member and what we'd like to provide for them. Then we started on our friends, neighbors, and organizations that we'd love to help out.
How wonderful it would be to play the role of the gentleman who delivered money, anonymously, on a very old TV show called "The Millionaire". Only we'd do it with specific gifts that we know would please those we love and care about. And then give the cash to those we didn't know what their needs were.
This is something we've done in the past, but mind you on a very VERY small level, with family and friends. So much fun to have them mention (next time we see or hear from them) that 'someone' left this widget on their door step, but left no mention of who it was from. We loved doing that.
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sadie999
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posted on August 22, 2001 05:20:08 PM new
There are four people on the planet that I'd make sure were taken care of for the rest of their lives (besides me).
After that, I'd become a complete social waste and just party 'til I croaked.
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gravid
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posted on August 22, 2001 06:47:00 PM new
If I had $100 million payout I would buy a not too flashy comfortable car and buy a couple new toothbrushes and hit the road. I would buy clothing as it got dirty and leave the old behind. I would never wear a pair of socks twice. I would stay in a halfway decent hotel every night and eat out at the best places I could find. When I was in an area I wanted to explore I would hire a local with a plane or boat to show me around the out of the way places, and I would tip them well.
I would take some trips to Yeman and Tasmania
- some of the islands of the Pacific and other out of the way places.
I would find out the very best of private investigators and set them to work gloves off to expose every misdead and dirty work of every member of the US Congress, both by searching the past and shadowing them today.
I would finance a greenhouse to grow tomatoes and innoculate them with tobacco mosaic virus and seperate and crystalize the pure virus until there was a huge mass of it and them distribute it by aircraft and ground spray vehicles through every inch of tobacco growing country until there was no uncontaiminated ground you could grow a tobbacco plant in on the continent.
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mcjane
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posted on August 22, 2001 07:58:11 PM new
My son lives in Delaware, a power ball state.
I live in Glen Mills, Pennsylvania, about 10 minutes from DE. I didn't buy any tickets, hope my son did.
It's kind of funny how many people will stand in line for hours for 100 million, but not one minute for 1 million.
There is hardly ever a line when the jackpot is "small"
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