Week 11: Redeeming a lottery ticket

 It was a Friday, and David was parking his 2009 Honda Civic at the lottery office. In his hand he held the winning ticket to a $75 million dollar jackpot. He still could not believe his luck. After being down on his luck since he lost his job and his girlfriend had left him for his best friend, he decided to buy a Powerball lottery ticket. And to his surprise, he had won the jackpot. 

But instead of calling his friends or family he had decided to keep his winnings a secret. He did not want anyone to find out about his sudden luck as they would surely ask him for a piece of the pie. Instead, he planned to continue working at his job and put his money into a conservative S&P 500 index fund.

When David got out of his car he saw a huge line that stretched outside of the office. In fact, it stretched so far outside of the office he could not see where it ended. 

"Surely they could not all be winners," thought David.

David then asked someone in the line why they were there and they replied, "Why because I won the Powerball!" 

Confused, David asked someone else and they replied the same way. In fact, everyone he asked replied the same way. As it turned out everyone in that line, a little over 2,000 people, was related and they had all bought lottery tickets, because 900 years ago a distant relative had a piece of paper with numbers on it. And these numbers turned out to be winning lottery numbers for the power ball. 

As it turns out this relative had many children and he decided to share the secret of the numbers with his relatives in hopes they would bring his family riches. It just so happened that today was the day of the lottery ticket and all 2,000 members bought a ticket. 

"Just my luck," thought David. "I am the unluckiest luckiest person in the world."

David's Car

Author's Notes: This story is a continuation of my week 7 story George Wins the Lottery. For this story I was inspired by the story of the Jewel that Satrajit had in Shri Krishna of Dwarka and other stories. In that story the jewel changed hands many times as people killed each other for it. I was intrigued by a story where people struggled against each other for a great prize, but in this story I added a twist. I decided to have the prize be split among 2,000 people so the true prize is not actually that large.

Bibliography: Shri Krishna of Dwarka and other stories by C. A. Kincaid, 1920

Reading Notes: Shri Krishna of Dwarka and Other Stories Part B

 Satrajit worshiped the sun god. Then one day the sun god came down in front of Satrajit. He then asked for the sun gods jewel. Satrajit gave the jewel to his brother who was evil, because he was afraid Krishna would take it. Then his brother was killed by a lion and the lion was killed by a bear who took the jewel. Krishna got the jewel after 21 days of fighting with the bear king. Satrajit was killed for the jewel. Krishna tried to get the jewel back again but he could not find it and his brother Balarama thought he was trying to hide the jewel for himself.

One day Balarama went back to hang with his cowboys and milkmaids and he drank some wine at a tree and got drunk. Pradyumna was Krishna's eldest son was thrown into the river and eaten by a fish. Then he was rescued by a fisherman. Rukmi died.

Jewel

 

Bibliography: Shri Krishna of Dwarka and other stories by C. A. Kincaid, 1920

Reading Notes: Shri Krishna of Dwarka and Other Stories Part A

 The demons, specifically Kansa, were harassing mankind. So Vishnu was reincarnated as Vishnu.  Kansa's cousin's 8th child was destined to kill Kansa. The 7th child was Vishnu as a serpent. Krishna was born as the 8th child and he went to Nagada's wagon. And they took a baby girl instead from the wagon. 

Kansa then released Krishna's parents. He then ordered that all male children be killed. Kansa then used a woman demon to kill the babies outside of his border. Krishna did a lot of mischief. Balarama was Krishna's friend. The villagers of Gokula then left their village for a better spot to live. Krishna ends up killing a lot of the demons that Kansa had sent. Krishna was nice to Kaliya.

Kansa plotted to kill Balarama in order to make Krishna sad and lose strength. Krishna convinced the cowherds to not sacrifice to Indra which made Indra mad. Krishna became god of the cowherds. King Kansa then acted like nothing was wrong and ignored his fate to be killed by Krishna. Kansa decided to hold a banquet and he invited the youth of Gokula, Krishna included, to the feast so he could kill Krishna.

In the capital Krishna and Balarama got new clothes. In the capital they had a wresting match. Then the boys killed Kansa and Kansa'a brother. Krishna said he could not rule over Yadava so he founded his own city. Jarasandha, Kansa's father in law made an army to avenge him but they lost 15 times but they continued to come so Krishna left the city. Kala-Yavana was tricked by Krishna.

Rukmani was an incarnation of Vishnu's wife Lakshmi. Ruk mi, Rukmani's eldest brother, refused Krishna from marrying her. However they ended up getting married.

Cowboy

 Bibliography: Shri Krishna of Dwarka and other stories by C. A. Kincaid, 1920