I won!

I won! The letter says so- I will be contacted as to how I want the money to be paid. My documents should arrive in less than a week. How am I chosen? Randomly and of course the system will check that I ordered a subscription to Reader's Digest. Legally, this is not supposed to be the case but who has ever checked. Do losers get to contact Reader's Digest and find out if the winners all have paid subscriptions?

My payment will be sent by courier or a direct bank-to-bank transfer. In today's world how many people want to give out their bank account number and hope that the piece of paper they have received is not fraudulent? The paper looks good but with modern technology people are fooled everyday, on the Internet, phone, at the door. If I win, I will take the payment by courier and will choose to have it delivered to my school where I work. That would be fun.

Did you know that winnings in Canada are tax-free. That is good news.

According to the booklet with the letter "some winners feel that it is a good idea to share the news with close family first in order to decide what to do with the prize." Others do not want to share based on cases like the man in London, Ontario who won a lottery prize, divorced his wife and then claimed the winnings.

I am ready for the prize and if I don't win, sadly I won't have the magazines to read to pass the time. Guess I will have more time to blog, when I'm not on the luxury cruise that I am looking forward to.

Don't worry, if I win, I will let readers of the blog know. You can help me decide what I should do.