the kid never ceases to amaze me

I call the kid,my son Alex,wondering where the heck he was. He was at the Holiday gas station behind the house. I told him to be home,NOW. He answers with a "in a minute". I was ready to speak loudly at him when he walked through the door,but something was different about him. He walks up to me and hands me the lottery scratch-off ticket that he had in his hand. I had looked at it wrong and said "oh that's too bad". He said LOOK at it, then I saw what he was telling me. Alex had won $500 on a $5 ticket.
After we woke my husband up to tell him,Alex and I got in the car and went to a different Holiday down the street to cash it. The store that he bought it at had just dropped their money for the shift change.
He just got himself a better Christmas present than I would ever get him.