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Tell us a story about making more money.

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I had lost a job in december 1996. (merry Xmas, Sorty)

Being the lazy man that I am, I decided to take a lil bit advantage of the French job's insurance system, and instead of looking for a job, i was just going on vacation, relaxing, enjoying my time with my boyfriend and cat.

Should I mention that in my free time, i also play a lot ?

There was this TV show called Pyramide (it's pretty much the same than the US one) that I really enjoyed watching.. I heard that some people met to play the game with others in afternoons or evenings. So i joined one of these groups.

I was very disapointed first, it was plenty of very old ladies who were more there to fight their loneliness than to play the game , + with a big gap of generations, i couldn't use my "youth" culture . But I met those 2 women in their early 50's, Claudia and Josette, very nice and smart who told me that they were also playing Pyramide at home.

They had noticed that I was a good player, so they started to invite me more and more. I met people my age or younger. I was playing around 25 hours a week ; sometimes all night long. I was soooo addicted. (of course, my boy friend was so pissed that I was playing instead of looking for a job).

One day, I decided to try to go on the show. I had two friends in my group of Pyramide's junkies who had already won big money, I thought : "why not me ?"

So, I wrote to the production, got an appointment, took the written quiz, passed, took the orals tests, passed ! I was going to be on the Show !!!

The serious and hard coaching time started ; Claudia and Josette really gave me hard times when I was making mistakes or was too slow, or didn't give the correct clues. But it worthed it. I

In February 1998, I did two shows, won the first one, but didn't get the "Grande pyramide", where you have one minute to make one of the host guesses 6 couple of words.)I also won the second show and this time I got the BIG MONEY ! ( not to mention a VCR, a microwave and a TV.)

In fact, i wasn't sure that I could win, and, irresponsibly, I had nothing planned in the future. It was the perfect time in my life to get this money (my work insurance was almost over). My boy friend and I broke up 2 months later (he was jealous that I could earn money without working and we fought a lot about that)

To make short a long story (Too late, Sorty) I received the money in june 1998, and moved in to the US in August ! So i didn't spend that money for 4 years. I got it when I moved back in France : my first purchase was this computer that I am using to tell you this story



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P.S. Those are the 6 groups of words that i had in my Grande Pyramide.

Pink cheek-bone (pommette rose)
modest triumph (triomphe modeste)
to shake one's sides (dilater la rate)
flask of rum (flacon de rhum)
hot sweetbread (ris de veau)
sharp answer (réponse vive)