Timepiece
Copyright© 2015 by Old Man with a Pen
Chapter 20
Wendy stopped at the convenience store slash gas station to fill up the Volvo. She pumped 20 gallons from the red hose into the 22 gallon tank, checked the oil and looked at the windshield washer fluid ... it was low ... so ... instead of pay at the pump like she usually did, Wendy hiked her cute little butt inside and bought a gallon of fluid, a cup of coffee a la Wendy ... half coffee and half hot chocolate. Standing at the counter, she noticed the Blue LOTTO Stand. Numbers popped into her head ... and, for the first time in her life, Wendy bought a Monster Millions lottery ticket. She picked up one of those forms and entered the numbers that were rattling like a mind worm song, stuck two bucks with it, got her ticket stashed in her purse and forgot about it.
Life moved as life does, two weeks went by and it was time to fill up the gas hog. It had been a very dusty, pollenated two weeks. The windshield washer got a lot of usage and it was empty again.
I just filled that up Friday, Wendy thought. It’s always something.
So ... for the second time in a month, Wendy went inside to pay. She picked up a gallon of the blue stuff for the washer bottle.
There was a banner over the register counter... We Sold A Winner! she read.
“What?” she asked the clerk.
“The BIG one,” the girl responded.
“Who to?”
“We don’t know, they haven’t come forward, yet,” said the clerk.
Wendy paid for her purchases ... including the cup of half coffee half hot chocolate and left.
Spring turned into summer, nearly every day the News was all about the lottery ticket.
The strap on her green purse broke and Wendy sniffled about it.
“David, I need a new purse,” she hollered down the basement steps.
“What?”
The sound of elephants charging up stairs.
I appeared in the doorway and handed her a package.
“Happy unbirthday, Wendy,” I said.
“Goof! My birthday was last May,” Wendy said.
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