She won the jackpot. I knew she would. It's because it's Sweeps Week. Everybody wins the jackpots during Sweeps Week. The networks get better ratings.
Viewers like to watch people win the jackpot.
Five years later my family leaped head first into the shallow puddle of the Game Show Sweeps. It didn't scare me at first. My father, being an all or nothing guy, figured out some elaborate plan involving everything from fake birth certificates, drivers licences, and social-security cards to installing extra phone lines in our house. Each listed under a different guise. Every phone had the corresponding fake name scribbled on a piece of yellowed masking-tape next to the dial.