I have always been addicted to scratch off lottery tickets. As soon as I turned 18, I bought a hundred of them. I won almost $400 from those lottery tickets, and that was the beginning of a terrible gambling addiction. I played scratch off lottery tickets every two weeks, when I received my paycheck. Sometimes I won and sometimes I lost a lot of money. Most of the time, I usually came out even for the year. Five years ago, something completely changed. I decided to buy a $20 scratch off ticket, and I won $1,000,000. I was just as surprised as anyone else, especially when I double and triple checked the ticket and the numbers. I only told my Dad, and not another living soul. I had to drive from Clearwater to Tallahassee in order to cash the lottery ticket. Even after taxes and fees, I still had a sizable chunk of money. I bought a small house in Clearwater Beach. It’s a three-bedroom Bungalow with two bathrooms and an outdoor sauna. I also used a bunch of money to open an ice cream shop in Clearwater Beach. We sell 21 different flavors of ice cream, and we make sundaes, milkshakes, and a variety of malts. Clearwater Beach is a great place for my ice cream shop, because the weather is particularly nice during the whole year. We definitely make a lot more money during the hot summer days, but Clearwater Beach is still a great place for activity during the winter. We constantly have snowbirds in and out of the store.