Luck and Life

Hi guys

Ok. So today, on getting to the office, there's this buzz all around and staff are clustered together discussing and talking animatedly.

Didn't want to start mingling with them and loafing around so i go up to my office and settle in. i could still hear all the excitement so i call the receptionist on the intercom and ask what all the fuss is about.

She tells me that a young lad who won big on one of our games had come to the office to claim his big prize. For those who don't know, i currently do Quality assurance for NairaBET .com, Nigeria's foremost sports bookies.

i make some calls and it turns out that this young man staked 100 naira on a list of accumulated fixtures, random games and crazy permutations with the funniest odds that you can imagine and believe it or not, they all panned out.

Total figure of his winnings, ladies and gentlemen, is roughly about 5.7 million naira.

When the shock clears, i have to go downstairs myself and look this nigger in the eye. I find him sitting in our conference room, looking scared and unsure if he's awake or still in dreamland. He has a couple of guys with him who are trying to look worldly wise and putting up some very fake swagger.

I go up to them, introduce myself in the most authoritative tone i can muster and they all stand up hesitantly. i ask for his identification and the poor lad is almost falling over himself to get his wallet out.

The wicked minions in my head begin urging me to have some fun with them so i take his ID card, look very critically at it, stare back at him, pan round to look at his companions and ask them who they are.
They start getting defensive and tell me they are his family members and he's their younger brother. One even looks like he wants to swear on a stack of bibles. lol.
Its so true when they say "Success has plenty relatives"

I want to leave it at this point but meeen, we're talking about  6 million naira here!!!..make dem sweat small na....(Not as if i'm the one to even give him the cheque sef)

I start asking them questions and grill them a bit about themselves. When it's clear that its not a hoax and this guy is the real deal, i smile at him and shake his hand.

You can see the instant relief on his face. Turns out the management had asked him to come for some photo ops and publicity. i leave them and walk back to my office amazed.

One of the minions is playing Gabrielle's song "life" on replay in my head.

This poor unemployed lad is about to become a millionaire through what some people term a bad habit while most of us, working our asses off can't lay claim to a fraction of that amount.

It is well!