The winner of the largest Powerball jackpot in history was revealed today to be an 84-year old woman in Florida who was allowed to cut in line to buy her ticket. Eerily reminiscent, in the opposite way, of a short story I posted on WordPress a few weeks ago. If you missed it then, here’s the link to it:
Let the waters come…
Thoughts about art and Heidegger's philosophy of croquet
Let the waters come... 
Your story came immediately to mind , I enjoyed very much