Windfall

Intro

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• tempting
• crummy
• hyped
• blow money

• stranger things have happened
• windfall
• bucks
• point

• left and right
• leave something to someone

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When you check your mail, what do you hope to find? What could be the best thing in your mail box? A letter from a friend? A check from someone who owes you money?

How about a letter telling you that relative you never knew has died and left you a fortune? Stranger things have happened! See what Devan finds in the mail box today. Could it be a windfall?

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Dialog

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Devan

Jason

Devan:  Hi.

Jason:  Hey.

Devan:  Oh my God. The greatest thing has happened.

Jason:  You found five bucks?

Devan:  Kind of. My Aunt Thelma died.

Jason:  Who’s Aunt Thelma? I’m sorry.

Devan:  I don’t even know who she is so it doesn’t matter. That’s not the point.

Jason:  You never met her or anything?

Devan:  No. But she left me…Guess. Guess how much money she left me.

Jason:  Two thousand dollars.

Devan:  OK. Take that number and add another two zeros to it.

Jason:  Two hundred thousand dollars? And you never knew she even existed?

Devan:  Eeee!

Jason:  Oh my God!

Devan:  So…

Jason:  Wow!

Devan:  I know. I’m totally freaking out. So I think…I’ve been thinking about it and I think we should travel the world and quit our jobs.

Jason:  Yeah. That’s tempting.

Devan:  Yeah?

Jason:  But, you know, I thought about this and I think that if we…I always thought that if I got, like, a bunch of money that I would start my own business. ‘Cause I think if we just travel around the world we would have to, like, come back and have, like, crummy jobs again. You know? Let’s start a company. We could do anything we want for the rest of our lives instead of having, like, one summer of fun or whatever.

Devan:  You’re right. You know…You’re right. You’re absolutely right. Like, I was, like, so hyped on the idea that it’s just like blowing money left and right, going to Paris, and Australia, but we can do that later. And we can do it with more money.

Jason:  I like how you think.

Devan:  So, what kind of business should we start?

Jason:  Well, that’s the question.

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