I have this funny fantasy

[rob in cal]

   Every so often a big organization, like a church or a big company, will order a huge pizza order, maybe 50 pizzas or so, and make sure that the pizza delivery driver gets a huge tip.  Then there will be a media story and it will go viral on youtube.  Anyway, it usually works out that the driver could really really use the big tip (we're talking about maybe 1,000 dollars or more in these special cases), like they are a single parent just scraping by, or they need some urgent car repairs so they can stay working, or they took the delivery job as a second job to help pay off debt, or medical expenses or something like that. 
   I'm always happy to hear about these stories.  But, my fantasy is that I get one of these special tips and then the local media converge on me, and ask me about what I'll be doing with the money, and how handy the extra money must be.  After a long pause, I'll respond that it will just go into extra investments, that it might help me raise my savings to income ratio for the month, that it will help me get a little closer to becoming one of America's few pizza driver millionaires, or that it will help go toward our future travel plans.  Either way it should help to undermine stereotypes and would make for a hilarious human interest story, imho.

[HAPPYINAZ]

LOL!  It would definitely bring some interest to how someone on low income could amass so much money.  But of course they would think it's just a fluke and you were somehow privileged and that most could never accomplish that. 

[undercover]

You have a fantasy of receiving some unexpected windfall and be interviewed about it so that you can brag about how you don't really need it and it's just going into investments? Do you realize how that sounds?

More selfish than funny if you ask me.

[MrMoogle]

You have a fantasy of receiving some unexpected windfall and be interviewed about it so that you can brag about how you don't really need it and it's just going into investments? Do you realize how that sounds?

More selfish than funny if you ask me.

Isn't it human nature to dream about getting an unexpected windfall?  I sure have fantasized about it.  Many people on here admit to buying a lotto ticket when it gets huge.

I wouldn't call it selfish.  Thinking you deserve it or waiting on that fantasy would be, but we're obviously working to our goals. 

[forummm]

You have a fantasy of receiving some unexpected windfall

I have that fantasy. At least a mid 6-figure windfall.

and be interviewed about it so that you can brag about how you don't really need it and it's just going into investments

But in my fantasy I keep my mouth shut and retire.

[SwordGuy]

The media would bowdlerize the story until the only takeaway from the news spot would be "Don't tip pizza drivers so much, they are all millionaires."

[FIRE47]

Seems a little strange to me - almost like you have a chip on your shoulder about being stereotyped.

I don't know why you want to throw people's act of kindness back in their face or brag about your wealth to the media but both things seem abhorrent to me.

It could just be how the post came across and I've misinterpreted it completely :/

[rob in cal]

   I would definetly appreciate a really big tip, as I do when I get nice tips from fairly big business orders.  The main part of my fantasy would be to say to people, "hey, we delivery drivers have all kinds of personal stories, and are in all kinds of different financial situations", so breaking stereotypes would be a big part of this, not bragging.  Btw, this goes to the stereotype of the struggling waitress as well.  There have been similar stories about really big tips for them and how it came in really handy for them in their lives. But yes, I can imagine the media going off on some weird tangent if this happened.

[Brokenreign]

That would be pretty entertaining! The ending of those stories is so clichéd that your mind comes to expect the 'struggling single mom' even before they get to the end.

That being said I think the station would be disinclined to air your story lest it enrage those viewers seeking the standard human interest angle!

[frugalnacho]

Media: So what are you going to spend your giant windfall on frugalnacho?
frugalnacho: I'll spend most of it on drugs and prostitutes.  The rest I'll waste.

[solon]

Weird - I was just thinking about this, right before I stumbled on this thread.

I think I great response would be: "I'm going to use it help me out of this dead-end job!"  Nobody would fault you for trying to improve your situation; everybody can understand not wanting to deliver pizzas forever. What goes unsaid is the way that tip is going to help you out.

[MVal]

Haha, I've had similar fantasies, like winning a bunch of money on a game show or something and then everyone is so dumbfounded when I just plug it into investments instead of having fun with it.

[JoRocka]

You have a fantasy of receiving some unexpected windfall and be interviewed about it so that you can brag about how you don't really need it and it's just going into investments? Do you realize how that sounds?

More selfish than funny if you ask me.

meh I have those all the time- I think calling them fantasy's would be a stretch- but I sure as shit day dream about ridiculous stories like that- I'm a power lifting bellydancer- I often wonder what would happen if some magazine interviewed me and I showed women across the country that you can be STRONG- smart AND SEXY without every giving up on who you are or "selling out"

Shrug= active minds create fun play grounds. Would I have started a whole thread about it? hell no- but my mind goes crazy places- I'm dreaming currently my upcoming wedding will be featured in a magazine and my photographer and I will become local celebrities for our artistic work together.

it's completely absurd.

And I indulge in it much like people indulge in gaming- or books. #whoamItojudge