Week 6 Story: Gold Digger

 Gold Digger

Rick lived an extremely wealthy life. He had a dozen cars, private planes, and several mansions around the world that he took great pride in. Despite his success as an entrepreneur, he was lonely. He was nearing sixty years of age yet had never had a lover. Because of this sad truth he was desperate to find the love of his life. One day when Rick was bored he decided to take his million dollar McLaren out for a spirited drive. The car only brought him temporary pleasure and he had hoped that while he took his cars for a drive everyday that he would meet the woman of his dreams. On one day, he saw a woman that caught his eye. He was in love at first sight! He called her over and she got into the car with no hesitation. She was less than half of his age at only twenty-four years old. Rick truly believed that this was true love at first sight, but his judgement was undoubtedly clouded by his euphoria. He managed to stumble through asking her questions and finds out that her name is Kendall. Rick asks Kendall within just seven minutes of her presence if she will marry him. She says "yes, but under one condition: you must never question my actions". Rick immediately agrees and they head to go get married. Afterwards, they go out to eat an expensive meal before they head back to one of Rick's multi-million dollar mansions. When they get back, Rick decides that he is ready to go to sleep. Kendall lies in bed with him until he falls asleep. Once he fell asleep, she went downstairs to grab the keys to one of Rick's Ferraris as well as his wallet. She spent the night out using Rick's money to buy tens of thousands of dollars worth of designer clothing before she headed back to the mansion. Rick woke up stunned to find one of his closets completely filled with designer clothing. Although he was shocked, he said nothing. He kept his promise to never question any of Kendall's actions. 

Gold Digger - Via Baimu Studio

Author's Note: The original story was "King Shantanu Gets Married" from Tiny Tales from the Mahabharata. In the original King Shantanu lived in a palace and was looking for a queen. When he was out hunting, he met a beautiful woman and immediately asked her to marry him. She agreed under the condition that he never questioned her actions. Of course King Shantanu agrees and they got married. A year later, she gave birth to their first child. The queen took that child down to the river and drowned it. King Shantanu was stunned but remained true to his word by not saying anything. So as you can see, quite a bit changed. Changes include: King Shantanu became a wealthy and lonely entrepreneur named Rick. The lady that King Shantanu met, became a twenty-four year old gold digger named Kendall that Rick met. Lastly, instead of the lady drowning their first kid, Kendall went and spent a lot of Rick's money without his consent.

Bibliography: Laura Gibbs, Tiny Tales from the Mahabharata

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