Winning the Lottery Doing the Right Thing

By Mario V. Farina

Rob had won the lottery. Twenty-three Millions Dollars. In a phone call from his daughter in law, she advised him to "Do the Right Thing!" and she made a suggestion as to what that should be. At age 77, Rob knew he was not competent enough to use the money wisely. But he wanted to do the right thing! Would you agree with what he felt the right thing was and what he did?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mario V. Farina
• Release date: Apr 29, 2016
• ISBN: 9781310398780

Mario V. Farina

Mario V Farina has worked all his life, from age 18 to 90. He worked for the American Locomotive Company, served in the U. S. Army during WWII, was employed at General Electric. He taught computers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. After leaving his position with RPI, he became employed with the State Labor Department of New York. He’s a car buff, a pun creator, and a computer enthusiast. He wrote textbooks for the programming languages COBOL and FORTRAN and wrote a book of puns and short stories called, “A Little Light Reading,” as well as over 20 other books. Several of his books were translated into other languages. This is his first foray into the world of digital publishing, with the help of his computer tutor ([e-mail]).

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Winning the Lottery

Doing The Right Thing

By

Mario V. Farina

Copyright 2016 Mario V. Farina

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I studied the numbers on the lottery ticket and felt my heart quicken. All seven were as familiar as those in my phone number. I took the ticket from the book where was currently playing the role of a bookmark and systematically began to compare the numbers on it with those in the Register