Grinning at your success, you slip around the corner and retrieve your prize from your pockets. You'd done it! Simple pack of gum or not, your heart is still racing. That was exhilarating!
Trying not to look suspicious, you survey your prize.
Some kind of imported gum, it looks like, judging by the lettering. Is that brand name in Cyrillic? It's hard to say, it definitely looks eastern European though. Fortunately, it's only the brand name that's in the strange script; the bulk of the text has been translated into English… poorly.
"Super Lucky SUCCESS CHEW!" boasts the label. "Now with new of strawberry tasting!!"
The "instructions" on the back are little better.
"Magic lucky success guaranteed! Chewing of five minutes, get you ten minutes SUPER success time! No think need, all winning all things from gum chew alone! Caution: care with gum chew decision exercise. Use not overmuch gum chew success. Side effects from use much not responsible!!"
Scratching your head, you do your best to piece together the broken English. From what you can gather, it's supposed to be "lucky" gum. Chew it for five minutes, and you'll succeed at stuff for 10 minutes. Then the rest is some warning about not chewing too much.
So… weird foreign lucky gum. Hardly a grand heist, but still kind of cool in a quirky way.
Shrugging, you pop one into your mouth. It is, as promised, strawberry flavored. A little oversweet for your tastes, but perhaps that's just the sweet, sweet taste of victory. You chuckle.
And, actually, perhaps it's just the rush of your antics, but you'd swear that after a few minutes you *do* feel a little luckier. Maybe…
"This is silly," you mutter, but nevertheless, you find yourself walking up to one of those little kiosks in the middle of the mall, boasting that you could win a car. Feeling foolish, you fill out the drawing slip, and slide it into the slot provided. No sooner have you done so, than a man saunters up and slaps the box closed.
"Just in time, kid," he says with a smile. "It's five o'clock; we're just about to start the drawing!"
Huh. That was lucky.
You turn around, and see a curious crowd gathering. The man dramatically removes the entry box, and shakes it into a large, glass ball, which he spins with gleeful abandon.
"Here we are, folks!" he says as the ball spins, scrambling the entries. Finally, the ball spins to a halt, and he reaches in to remove one card. "The winner of a brand new car is…. Elliot Barnes!"
Your jaw drops in shock. The gum falls to the floor, now drained of color. Your head reels as you raise your hand.
You just won a car.
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