Rachael Warden once again writes lovingly of her mountain home.
This morning on the Today Show, I heard a little tidbit that usually wouldn’t catch my attention: somebody won the $276,300,000 Powerball grand prize. A group of coworkers. Big deal, it’s always a group of coworkers (which is actually kind of cool because you know the office asshole never chips in and is ever after faced with the fact that he or she was thisclose to winning millions). But then I turned to the screen and noticed where the winners were being broadcast from: Morgantown, West Virginia, home of West Virginia University (my alma mater) and now eight brand-new millionaires.
West Virginia has already had one infamous Powerball winner. You may remember Jack Whittaker, winner of $314.0 million and the third-largest Powerball jackpot ever, who experienced (or possibly brought upon himself) a series of bizarre and disturbing incidents following the win.
No matter. We like to take a gamble once in a while in the Mountain State; for these employees of the Monongalia sheriff’s tax office, it definitely paid off to the tune of $11.7 each, after taxes and opting for a lump sum. I must say I feel a slight connection to the winners, like maybe if I was still in college, I could’ve bought that very same ticket. Maybe it’s the same kind of feeling you have if, say, a famous person went to your high school thirty years before you and was also in the drama club.
Anyway, I bet there are more than a few college students thinking, “Damn I should have bet that last $5 on Powerball instead of buying those 22s of Bud Light.”
Tags: communications department, lottery, rachael warden, west virginia
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