$30 Lottery Tickets!
$Zero
when you think you've seen it all, you walk into a Quickie Mart... and
while you're paying for gas, your eyes wander around the various
impulsive buyer displays of candy bars, bubble gum, and whatnot when
suddenly you spot a $30 lottery ticket.
and you begin to wonder just how far this will eventually go, so you
ask the cashier:
$30 lottery tickets? does anyone actually buy any of those?
oh yes, all the time.
really?
yes. some people buy several.
your mind then shifts to imagining a sucker stuffing their face with
candy bars, sitting in their car just outside the store, pinning the
ticket on their knee with their candy maneuvering elbow, scratching
off the little gray shit with their free hand (and a stray penny).
and you wonder how they feel when they've scratched through the fourth
and final ticket only to discover that they've just spent $120 on four
small pieces of worthless shiny tiny card stock.
as you chuckle to yourself, you ask the cashier what they think the
next level will be -- and how high do they suppose it will eventually
go before someone puts a stop to this madness.
dunno.
here's your change, sir. thank you for shopping Quickie Mart.
and you walk to your car running various numbers through your
amusement-filled head.
$100 lottery tickets?
$500?
$1,000?
how about $10,000 lottery tickets?
what would it be like to scratch off a $10,000 lottery ticket and
discover that you just won $30?
would it make you happy?
...
would it feel like a victory?
...
would you go right back into the Quickie Mart and cash in the winning
ticket?
...
and after cashing it in, would you then buy a $30 ticket?
...
-$Zero...
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I.B.Larfin
Las Vegas meets Quickie Mart. I expect that most of the people buying
those are poor working or unemployed who vote straight ticket
Republican because they're sure they'll be rich Any Time Now. Or
maybe geenyuses who are sure the odds are better on a $30 ticket.
I've been thinking about your endeavor, $Zero. You could change the
spin on it slightly. "We're gonna have 20 million designs... nearly!"
I think there's good potential in slogan t-shirts. I just don't think
it relates to Rush very much. Sure, maybe one T with a picture of a
slice of cheese that is a caricature of Rush with stinky lines coming
up and the slogan "Limburger Stinks!" maybe, but people want a laugh
not a sermon.
Just a thought. Good luck on it however you proceed.
--
vacillate over ambivalence.
then kick ass.
Cheryl
"$Zero" <zero...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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I have a friend addicted to scratch off lottery tickets. I never thought
such a thing was possible. Somehow I thought playing scratch off lottery was
something people did as a whim and a few extra bucks in their pocket. Of
course, that's probably because I've only played them maybe a dozen times
over the entire time they've been available in my state. I'm ahead in my
winnings to date. $50, $10, a couple of $5s, and several free tickets. I
feel pretty lucky with my scratch off pennies. After watching my friend
spend anywhere from $20 to $100 a week on his fairly low income job, though,
I realize the reason I'm lucky is because I've only spent an average of a
dollar or two a year on them.
danger...@gmail.com
> and after cashing it in, would you then buy a $30 ticket?
"The Lottery is a tax on people who can't do math." -- my son.
DB
danger...@gmail.com
> I have a friend addicted to scratch off lottery tickets.
I also don't play because there are people like my daughter around.
She borrowed $3 from me at a quickie mart and bought three scratch
tickets. She won $10. I asked for my $3 back. She said no.
She wins nearly every time she plays.
On her first trip to a casino, she took $50 and brought home $1000.
The only thing I ever won in my whole life was a bottle of very cheap
wine as a door prize. It was so bad I threw it out.
Luck, I realized, is not distributed equally.
DB
I.B.Larfin
I won a set of dishes. I was 7 at the time.
There is no such thing as luck, you get what you need.