Abraham Shakespeare
Annnnd the winning numbers arrrrre… The Mega Millions lotto went down a few weekends ago, and I was eating guacamole and fajitas with friends and washing it down with cerveza as they called the winning numbers. Nobody at our table won, unless you consider that guacamole a win (which I did, along with the Texas-style mesquite fajitas). There were many winners that night all over the country, but I’m pretty sure the big winner was an airline flight attendant from Illinois. The state of Illinois is fortunately one of the states that doesn’t require a posting of the winner and actually allows anonymity, which is a good thing! People will come crawling out of the woodwork as soon as they publish your name, and winners have attested to this nightmare to the point many published winners have to go into hiding and become a recluse. She cuts her teeth on wedding rings in the movies I had always heard, in passing, about the curse of the lottery, but I never r...