I really like your narrative style, @greenrun; realistic in tone, almost journalistic, with moderate subjective interventions of the main character, and with an ironic bias. "A Lucky Day" seems to me, precisely, a title of subtle irony, to refer to this entanglement that could be very everyday. Akpan's character is very well presented in his basic psychology, which leads him to have the most convenient behavior, even knowing that he is being deceived and stolen. This tumultuous behavior that the masses may have is also well collected, which, in this case, did not lead to fatal results (the images of the bloodthirsty masses in the massacres of Rwanda came to me), "fortunately". Thank you for your good story, and also @adsactly for sharing it.