DO YOU SUSPECT SOMEONE YOU KNOW HAS WON LOTTO?

[goo**spew]

While I was visiting my sister in Sydney last week, she invited me to a lunch with an old friend of hers from Melbourne. I was told she was house-sitting in Mosman. We get to this vulgar modern milllion dollar monstrocity with the great views and I'm already smelling a rat. My sister's old friend was very working class in nature - she sounds like Flo on Psychic TV, and I was surprised a family who could afford such a home didn't have a house-keeper.

Anyway, we knock on the door and she opens it, beaming. I haven't seen her in years, she's not really my friend, but she looked completely different. Nice clothes, an expensive hair cut. She gave us the tour and she pointed out several photographs she says belong to the family who live there - but what was strange was there were about a dozen more photographs of her and her family around the house than the people who lived there.

Checking the wardrobes I noticed no men's clothes at all. I didn't check the children's closets but their bedrooms looked more like guest suites for adults than where teenagers lived - no posters, books, personalised bric a brac...

After a lunch which she says she prepared but I know wasn't, as I found the wrappers in the bin when I was clearing up (from an expensive catering store in Sydney) she showed us the "lady of the house's" jewellery box: diamond bracelets, rings, pins etc... I then noticed the discreet but expensive jewellery she had on. For all I know, the whole lot could be cubic zirconias but there were jewellery boxes on the shelves marked "Cartier" as well as a few art nouveau pieces from Tiffanys. My sister bought the story that the wife doesn't like to travel with her jewels but what kind of woman would leave such a horde at the access of a working class woman or any woman?

After lunch she took us for a drive in a Mercedes owned by the family and didn't seem concerned when I pointed out that she wasn't the insured driver.

I don't really care much if she's won lotto, nor if she's hiding the fact as I would do the same to her, but it made me wonder how many other people conceal their good fortune. Do you suspect anyone of the same?

[tommy.irene]

One of the reasons i moved to the Canarie Isles to live was that i didnt want people to know that i had won money on the UK lottery.. I didnt know that £10. wouldnt keep you and i would have to find work. 

[goo**spew]

That's not even funny as you can't even pretend to be well-off 😉

[cherry*135]

Yes, my cleaning lady, she hardly ever shows up for work these days. I only gave her the job because she was bankrupt.

[tommy.irene]

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@goo**spew wrote:

That's not even funny as you can't even pretend to be well-off 😉

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Im not well off.. I have the old age agepension to live on.. The best part is having all year sunshine here.. Its good for my old bones..

[spotweldersfriend]

Do you ever see those Canary Islanders communicate by whistling,Tommy? Pretty amazing stuff.:-)

[meh_too]

Yes,

The media was full of someone in this town winning Powerball.  From the clues I suspected it was the old bloke next door. I never asked him, as it was none of my business.  However about 3 years later someone confirmed that it was my next door neighbour who won $15m. He still lives in the same house, and I have never discussed his win with him.

Good luck to him, he has a large family and it will do alot of people alot of good.

[goo**spew]

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@meh_too wrote:

Yes,

The media was full of someone in this town winning Powerball.  From the clues I suspected it was the old bloke next door. I never asked him, as it was none of my business.  However about 3 years later someone confirmed that it was my next door neighbour who won $15m. He still lives in the same house, and I have never discussed his win with him.

Good luck to him, he has a large family and it will do alot of people alot of good.

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Those stories always upset me: battlers who win and take care of everybody but themselves

[goo**spew]

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@meh_too wrote:

Yes,

The media was full of someone in this town winning Powerball.  From the clues I suspected it was the old bloke next door. I never asked him, as it was none of my business.  However about 3 years later someone confirmed that it was my next door neighbour who won $15m. He still lives in the same house, and I have never discussed his win with him.

Good luck to him, he has a large family and it will do alot of people alot of good.

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If you had won the 15m, would you have stayed in the same house and given most of it away?

Was he the sole winner of 1st division?

There's a great youtube video of a woman in her 70's who won 600 million in Florida, sole winner. After tax and lump sum deduction, she came away with 180 million. Anyway, she was standing in line at a newsagents waiting for a quickpick and got talking to a young lady ahead of her also waiting for a quickpick. The young woman offers her place in the line to the old lady and gets served after her. The old lady claimed afterwards that she couldn't remember the woman's name or what she looked like when asked if she would try and offer her some of the winnings.

[meh_too]

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@goo**spew wrote:

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@meh_too wrote:

Yes,

The media was full of someone in this town winning Powerball.  From the clues I suspected it was the old bloke next door. I never asked him, as it was none of my business.  However about 3 years later someone confirmed that it was my next door neighbour who won $15m. He still lives in the same house, and I have never discussed his win with him.

Good luck to him, he has a large family and it will do alot of people alot of good.

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If you had won the 15m, would you have stayed in the same house and given most of it away?

Was he the sole winner of 1st division?

There's a great youtube video of a woman in her 70's who won 600 million in Florida, sole winner. After tax and lump sum deduction, she came away with 180 million. Anyway, she was standing in line at a newsagents waiting for a quickpick and got talking to a young lady ahead of her also waiting for a quickpick. The young woman offers her place in the line to the old lady and gets served after her. The old lady claimed afterwards that she couldn't remember the woman's name or what she looked like when asked if she would try and offer her some of the winnings.

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If I won $15m?  Would not see me for dust, I would be on the first place outta here - first class of course!