Pray that you don't win the Powerball – it would be terrible | David Ferguson
by David Ferguson from on (#10JBQ)
The odds of being rich, famous and happy are even worse than actually winning the $1.5bn jackpot
The Powerball prize as of this writing is hovering at $1.5bn and everybody is freaking out. People who haven't been inside a gas station since pay-at-the-pump was invented are lining up at registers alongside the cigarette smokers, cash customers and regular lottery ticket buyers to have their chance to throw away some money at a one-in-292-million chance at winning the big prize.
But before you all lose yourselves in dreams of heated towel racks for your Wally Hirmes yacht and in-season Gucci separates for all six of your cats, I just want to ask you: Do you really want this?
