If I had a million dollars...

After some experimentation with group Haiku I decided that the group without cause did need some direction. I was at a loss until I awoke from a nightmare where I was locked in an elevator for eternity with the elevator music version of The Barenaked Ladies "If I Had a Million Dollars" on eternal repeat. It was from this dark dark place that I came up with the first question.

"If you had a million dollars cash and 24 hours to live what would you do?"

The answers tended to fall within one of three categories.

The selfless:

Julianne F. wrote

I would pay off my parents and brothers mortgages. Buy my son and daughter-in law a new house. Set up college funds for my grandkids. Throw a party for my closest friends and family. Then spend the rest of the night talking and laughing with a close personal friend.

The selfish:

Sean H wrote

1. Pile of coke
2. 12 hookers dressed as cheerleaders
3. 12 more in St. Mary's uniforms
4. case of 10w40
5. A slip&slide
6. a spatula
7. Jack Daniels
8. LeRoy

The hysterical:

Kalik B wrote

24hrs and 1 Mill....I'm organizing the largest freeze tag game in NYC history, then hang glide naked around Brooklyn with a money trail floating behind me.

This is the part of this rambling where I am supposed to reveal what deeper truth was uncovered by the experiment. Sadly I found no such truth.

I am left only with another question. How does the day you imagined as your last compare with today?