1 in 175,000,000

Okay...so here’s a different perspective on the odds of winning tonight’s $550 MILLION Powerball.   Heard this from a Microsoft statistician on this morning’s news.  Take 175 million pennies.   Put an “X” on one of those pennies.

Now lay the pennies side by side.   If you live in New York City, start to place the pennies somewhere in midtown Manhattan.   Somewhere along the line...when you come to the “X” marked penny...make sure it is not face up...but rather faced down towards the ground!   When you’re finished laying down all the pennies...you should be somewhere in Chicago!

Chicago is about 790 miles from midtown Manhattan and a penny is about 3/4 inches in diameter.   You do the math!

Okay…now that you’ve laid out all the pennies...go back to Manhattan and have a friend get in a car (without you)...and tell them to drive to Chicago.   Tell them that somewhere during their trip...they should stop the car and pick up a penny.   If there’s an “X” on it…they just won a half a BILLION dollars!

I ain’t driving to Chicago...but I still dropped a few bucks on tonight’s drawing.   As the saying goes...”You gotta be in it to win it!"   Forget the odds and who has 175 million pennies anyway!   Hell, come to think of it, if I had 175 million pennies...I wouldn't need to win this! I can be quite happy with $1,750,000!