Lottery dreams.

In the Irish and Irish-American and Italian-American neighborhood, everyone is very (white) and working-class, and seems to be Republican.

I was at this one trashy Irish pub, and everyone was buying lots of Megamillion tickets for the record jackpot, and people were very seriously talking about how if they won the lotto, they would be free.

For some reason, I found the way they said that strangely beautiful, and almost began to cry.