Some people are just lucky.
Our first full day in Lima, Jeremy was one of those people.
We were all walking through a plaza in dowtown Lima, when we stumbled upon a man working with spray paint, sponges, and fire (best part? When he pulled out the lighter and a can of spray paint, flame-thrower style, and looked over his shoulder at the armed guard with an ¨I´m going to do this no matter what, so...¨ expression) . So, naturally, we stopped to watch. Being an enterprising artist, the man showed off the painting (which really was amazing considering it was made with spray paint) and offered to raffle it off, one sole per ticket (exchange rate is roughly 3 soles to 1 american dollar). Jeremy went in, along with a few others. Then, just to make it interesting, the man offered to add in four more tickets if those already in the hat paid one more sole. He then pulled a few tickets to eliminate people (this guy knew how to work a crowd). Finally, the artist asked Maureen to pull the winning ticket, which was Jeremy´s - the first one he bought.
sounds about right to me, although u did omit the artist looking over his shoulder at the security guard/police man to see what he'd did when he started using a blow torch/fire to dry his painting
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