And what, you may well ask, feats of human endurance did I surmount to deserve such treatment? Had I discovered a cure for the common cold; vanquished a blood thirsty beastie?
Nope. Nothing of the sort.
I had found, under the dog’s sleeping blanket, scrunched to the size of a ping-pong ball, the mislaid winning lottery ticket. A veritable jackpot of Five Million Smackeroonies! Oh, yeah!