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aBoyandHisVacuum t1_j0grsku wrote

Reply to comment by Sneed_is_king in Landscaping company surprises employees with bonuses up to $200K by ChickenXing

You have no idea whats ahead. So many incredible things could happen. You buy a small home on the side of a highway, boom truck flips over and lands on part of your property, company sends a check for 200k. Lifes weird, a Boeing engine jet part lands on your roof. Million dollar settlment. You open a tiny pizza spot and in 10 years your worth over a billion dollars. Or you make an honest living, have like 2 wonderful kids and you die happy, thats more then wealth could ever bring :) im getting off track but keep your head up.

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GettingBetterDaily94 t1_j0i7aqx wrote

This is beautiful, especially the end. Life is funny sometimes

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aBoyandHisVacuum t1_j0i7yg7 wrote

Exactly! Its amazing! The truck story is based on my relative who has a beautiful lil house in california because an oil tanker spilled on some uncles property in the 80s on the east coast. 20 years later they got some huge check. Luckily all really good hard working people so cant hate

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Renaissance_Slacker t1_j0iabxp wrote

I had a co-worker years ago who bought an ice cream stand where two roads met in the boonies. Shortly thereafter he learned that all the surrounding land had been secretly bought up by a developer to build hundreds of executive homes - with his convenience store smack in the middle.

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aBoyandHisVacuum t1_j0idbhd wrote

"That property is worth jack squat, you can have it for 10k" .....12 years later, million dollar commercial property. Heck yeah! I love ice cream. Im sure the builders did too

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Renaissance_Slacker t1_j0ies4e wrote

They were going to tear down the stand and put in a convenience store. The funniest part: when the store was done, he was going to put in a silly DVD rental box from a startup called Netflix.

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