Big Wheel Keep on Turnin’…no Whammy’s!

The winds of change are blowin’ blowin’ blowin’ upon us. Can you hear the whistle? Most of you reading this have heard me talking of this for the past few months. “Shut it!” might be your reaction. But you might just be a little entertained if you stick it out.

Recently, a question was posed to me…”Who wants to be a millionaire?” And the answer is, I, I want to be a millionaire! So my dear friend Laura decided to sign me up for the game show audition. This very afternoon I will be quizzed, interviewed, poked, prodded, and analyzed to see if I am worthy of the might television gameshow. Don’t get too excited though…after all that, they are just determining if you are worthy to be thrown into a huge lottery of possible contestants randomly drawn from a secret bowl of names. I’m not sure what the odds are that I would actually be chosen but I am sure it’s pretty slim. But all the same, who wants to be my lifeline?

In all seriousness, thinking about who I would call to be my lifeline has sparked some interesting thought about my friends and family. Do I call my Aunt who was once a contestant on Jeopardy and probably knows everything? Do I call on Laura and Graham, who between the two of them not only know every lyric to every song ever written (no tunes, though!) and I would venture to bet every fact of popular culture since 1975? Do I call on my brother with his encyclopedic knowledge of airbags and grammar? And let us not forget the three sisters mine who can make you a can of paint, help you save your mortgage, and create a solution for your sewer issues. Or what about that poet friend of mine that after reading his new book made me realize that he has to be sitting on a shitload of brains and cleverness. It remains a conundrum which is not likely to be decided soon, but in all fairness, most likely will not come up!

So, I bid you, wish me luck this afternoon. I take my leave to fill out the questionnaire…”what makes you unique?” …my fingerprint? “How would winning 1 Million Dollars change your life?” Are you frickin’ kidding me? Aside from needed a bigger wallet…Oh, and my favorite “If you could vote yourself as best-_____ or most-likely-to_____, what would be your vote?” I would say most likely to vote for a democrat.