How’d this happen?!

So, you know that saying people use when you're eating too much, playing too much, or sleeping too much...? That too much of a good thing is not a good thing?

What if you had too much money?

Now, hear me out; enough to get by without worry is perfectly reasonable...

But when you, say... win the lottery... then things become a little LESS reasonable, ESPECIALLY if it's a giant amount, like, for example, say... over a billion.

Why would it be a bad thing?

Imagine, if you will... being an anti-social person, and you, for laughs, buy a ticket, completely forget about it, snore your way through the lottery numbers being called, and wake up the next day to random knocking on your front door.

Obviously, you'd assume it was the usual kind: kids wanting to mow your lawn, candy grams... door-to-door salesmen...

So, you open the door, about to tell them no or tell them off, and you're immediately met with reporters, shouting and asking how you'll spend the money.

After several minutes, you'll get them to calm down, and they'll tell you that you won the lottery... the lottery you entered for laughs... for over a billion dollars.

Once you get through that you didn't know you'd won, you'd ask them to leave, go back inside, and look into it...

Once it's determined that you DID, in fact, win, the unfortunate thing is... you can't back out of it... no matter what you try.

Your bank can't accept that much all at once, in small or large form... and you can't simply have a giant check given to you...

So, what seemed like a simple joke... turns into a giant problem because you need money to survive, so you can't just give it all away, but you also can't keep much of it because of people's perceptions... but the amount of people that would need the money is far too great in comparison to the money you'd have remaining after all your affairs were in order.

Now, stuck in a bind that you put yourself into... one has to wonder... would burning that ticket have made a better difference? Would you be better off with someone else having the burden instead?

It just goes to show... too much of a good thing isn't always the best thing... and sometimes. it might just be a big, bad, mistake.