Here we are in December, and it's panic season for those having a hard time finding just the right Christmas or holiday gift.
I can give you this much help: kids don't want socks or ties, men don't want the Deluxe Aqua-Velva Gift-Pak, and women definitely do not want anything that cleans, irons, slices, dices, or broils.
Give her that, and she'll be lifting one finger, all right.
Match the gift to the person, and you can't go wrong.
You can ask Alexander McLeish, of Attleborough, Mass. about that.
Unfortunately, Alexander recently went under the knife for open heart surgery, and a friend decided that a nice little gift to tuck into a get-well card would be a lottery scratcher.
It doesn't say, in the article I read, whether Alex had to borrow the surgeon's scalpel to reveal his prize, but it was a good prize. A million dollar prize!
Actually, his friend bought three scratchers for Alexander, and two were duds, but when he started in on a "100X Cashword" card, he saw two lucky signs right away: the word HEART, and, when he scratched letters, the first three he turned up were A, W, and M: his initials!
Bingo! One milllion simoleans!
Mr McLeish says this same friend gave him a ticket for his birthday a few years ago, and that one paid off to the tune of $1,000.
Last week, he went to the state lottery headquarters in Dorchester, and took home his one-time, lump-sum payment of $650,000 (before taxes).
I would expect McLeish will get his friend something really nice for Christmas. What a lucky guy!
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That very Electrolux still sits in Mom's basement. The pretty lady in the ad must have had one whopping strong finger, I can tell you from experience. And, when Mom fired up the old 'Lux, every television in greater Providence went to pure gray static for the duration. There is much to be said for modern restrictions on electromagnetic interference!
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