Read this short story about Mrs.Stevens who won the lottery. And summarize her story and explain how would you do if you won the lottery ($100 million dollars).
A
58-year-old grandmother in Massachusetts won one of the biggest prizes in U.S.
history—$294 million. If she had taken a lottery payout, Doris Stevens would have received $11 million a year for
26 years, before taxes.
Mrs.
Stevens decided to take the lump
sum payment. People who take the lump sum get paid within 60 days, their
total lottery
payment is reduced by almost 40
percent. Mrs. Stevens’ lump sum was $168 million, but after the federal tax was
applied, she received $110 million. Stevens who recently divorced says that her ex-husband has
already called her to ask about a “loan.” She laughed. “I wouldn’t lend him a
quarter to call the police if he was getting robbed. Let him borrow money from
his new young girlfriend who makes him so happy.”
What
is she going to do with her money? “Well, the first thing I'm going to do is to help out my
children and grandchildren, of course. Next, I hope to revolutionize the
housecleaning industry.” Mrs. Stevens answered. She was a housecleaner
for her entire life. She says
she’s going to establish a National Housecleaner Helper Corporation. Her
corporation would focus on giving seed money to various individuals and
research firms to develop more efficient and more powerful house cleaning cleaners
and tools.
“When
was the last time you saw something new in housecleaning?” Mrs. Stevens asked.
“They keep claiming they’ve invented new products that remove any and all stains
and dirt, but they still haven’t invented a
product that removes an ordinary ballpoint ink stain from your ordinary white
shirt. This industry needs some new products. I hope to revolutionize the
cleaning world, so that my ‘sisters’ will have an easier time of it in the
future. We’ve all spent too much time on our hands and knees. If men had to do
housecleaning, you know that they’d be inventing more powerful products every
week.”
*Lottery payout: Lottery payouts are the amount of
money that lottery winners get, payout a sum of money paid out
*lump
sum: A lump sum is a single payment of money, as opposed to a
series of payments made over time
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