The Friday Fictioneer Challenge: Write a 100-word story based on the photo.
Photo copyright Claire Sheldon
Retirement Plan
As a temporary employee, Bill met all kinds of people all over. Some stood in his cubicle doorway seemingly like forever, complaining about how busy they were. Others spent a great deal of energy planning their retirement 20-plus years down the road. Over the short cubicle walls, he regularly overheard arguments between the Comma Cliques: those who advocated for the Oxford comma, those against it at all costs.
Bill looked at his staple collection, aghast at how quickly time passed with so little accomplished and decided on his own new retirement plan: buy a lottery ticket on the way home.
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It's a long story ... 
With today’s political and economic problems, a lottery ticket may be as good a bet as any other.
Good display of modern work worries. 🙂
Might as well!
Nothing to lose… well, the cost of the tickets, but other than that! 😉
As good a plan as any.
I’m afraid that the though the odds are low, it’s the best you can get.
It can’t hurt!
Still waiting on my lottery win to come in! And don’t get me started on the comma cliques! Bill and I have a lot in common 🙂