Carl entered the dingy gas station store, picked up a pepsi and two snickers bars and approached the counter. Behind it stood a beer bellied man in a black shirt and blue jeans. He had long bushy brown hair and a mustache and an aromatic mix of cigarettes and cheap beer. He was reading a newspaper.
"Roger! I didn't know this was your shift!" Carl grinned at the cashier.
Roger looked up, "Sarah's water broke, I'm taking her shift." He folded the paper and set it down.
"Congratulations to her," Carl replied.
Roger snorted, "another baby to a welfare mother. Sometimes, I hate the state government."
"What can you do Rog? What can you do?"
"I know what I'm gonna do," Roger answered. "I'm voting Republican next year. Getting real tired of this crap. Two snickers and a pepsi, lemme see . . ." his sausage-like fingers went over the register.
"And ten gallons of gas," Carl added.
"Thirty one seventy seven," Roger counted up. Carl slapped down a credit card and Roger swiped it.
The door opened and a man entered, an old tall man with a grizzly brown beard and a red cap on his head. As Carl gathered his snacks and his card, the man asked Roger for a lottery card.
"They're picking the numbers in just a few minutes," Roger said, pointing to a TV screen. The man leaned against the counter and scratched off the ticket. The three waited in suspense.
"What's the point?" Carl asked.
"Someone's gotta win," the man in the hat said, in a deep farmer's voice.
The numbers showed up on screen. The man jumped a mile.
"I won!" he shouted, and then, screaming in ecstasy, he ran out of the gas station. Carl and Roger watched him dancing and shouting and then he stepped into the street and got hit by a bus.
"Oh dear god!" Roger shouted, following Carl who was running out the door. The bus had pulled over and people were running towards the dead man.
"What luck!" Roger moaned.
"What luck!" Carl shouted happily.
"I'm gonna get the paramedics," Roger said, pulling out his cellphone.
"I'm gonna get the winning ticket!" Carl said gleefully
About Me
- j kuhl
- I am an Air Traffic Management major at Daniel Webster. I am left-of-center politically. I am an agnostic. I believe in the scientific method and thus I follow Evolution and the Big Bang and give the Bible little regard. I am an American, I believe in American ideas, free speech, free religion and I will argue for them and fight for them. My hobbies are writing, biking, computer games and other stuff.
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