Nature gave Michael dark features at birth, but not in the tall-dark-handsome-Cary-Grant-Clooney sort of way. His brown eyes, bold eyebrows and deep black locks simply serve to clash mightily with the pallor of his pasty skin. As for fashion, Michael prefers dark-colored workman-like pants (a.k.a “Dickies”) and the kind of short-sleeved “cowboy” shirts that refuse to wrinkle no matter how carelessly they are crumpled on a floor. (For a multitude of reasons mostly having to do with impatience, Michael never could master folding, hanging or ironing.) Michael always wears sneakers and black socks.
It should also be mentioned that the way Michael tends to relax his face makes it appear to the outsider that he is deeply annoyed at something or somebody, perhaps even them. This often leads to miscommunication and unwanted judgments upon his character. Mostly, it just means he’s tired.
Michael is pretty decent at many things – typing, reading while walking, Frisbee, being one of the first to finish any type of timed test - but he’s not particularly great at anything. If he were a university instead of a person, he’d be a nice-enough liberal arts college nestled somewhere between Indiana and
So, superficially speaking of course, you could safely say Michael Green is just another average human being in the expansive sea of genetic mediocrity.
But unlike 99.998% of most men, Michael Gregory Green is a lottery winner. A big time lottery winner. Five years ago this May, Michael won the single largest lottery pay-out in
What follows is the story of one remarkable event that happened to one pretty unremarkable guy. It’s a tale about what happened to a lottery winner after the press conferences and the novelty check presentations and the rounds of the local news networks ended. Oh, and just as a warning, Michael doesn’t drink, snort, shoot, or gamble all of his money away. That’s another kind of story. (Sorry for the disappointment, as those stories tend to be pretty exciting.)
For those of you still remaining for this story, let’s go ahead and take it back to two days before Michael became very, very rich.