We’ve all been there before – your colleagues are making the rounds gathering money to purchase group lottery tickets. Happened to me Friday night. Coughed up my five bucks and joined the group and spent the night figuring out who we would call to finish putting out the Saturday edition when our winning numbers were pulled and we turned into millionaires.
Of course you know that didn’t happen because I probably wouldn’t be writing this entry. This was however as close as I’ve ever come to winning the Mega Millions. Missed it by 25 miles. You see the real winners were in the newsroom at The Repository, just down I-77 in Canton. Two dozen editorial employees there will split $250,002. Of course Uncle Sam has to take his cut, but that still leaves about $7,000 for each of the lucky ticket holders.
Now that’s not enough that you get to make that phone call that someone else needs to finish this edition, but the only disappointed people in the office that night were the ones who didn’t buy in. Like they say in the movies, “it could happen to you.”