Chapter 14 Chapter Fourteen

beep-- beep-- beep-- "Hey! Hello! Yes, yes. Yes. You need to speak up, it's very noisy in here. What?" "Not me, I only run the bar at night. Yvonne at noon, and Jim, he's the boss. I'm out at noon. What?" "You need to speak up." "What? No, I don't know about lotteries. What?" "No, I don't know about that. You wait, I'll get Jim over here." The barmaid covered the phone with her hand and yelled in the noisy bar. "Hey Jim, there's a guy on the phone saying he won a lottery. He keeps saying it's lottery 37 and he's won."

"No, a guy in the bar won." "He asked if we had gotten that ticket." "He doesn't even have a lottery ticket, how can he say he won?" "Jim said you didn't even have a lottery ticket, how can you say you won. What?" She covered the phone again. "Jim, he's been calling me so hard that I'm confused. There's a number on that ticket." "Of course there is a number on the ticket, so it's a fucking lottery ticket!" "He said he meant there was a phone number on the ticket." "Can you hang up the phone and go greet the customers?"