More lottery woes
JTEM
Here in these parts the lottery gives you a full year
to claim a prize. I know for a fact that many states
are different so, please, kids, DON'T TRY THIS AT
HOME!
Anyhow, I start amassing lottery scratch tickets a
while before Christmas -- one month, maybe two --
buying one or two at a time when I have the extra
buck in my pocket. In this way I avoid any
ast-minute rush for an appropriate gift on the
cash-starved doorstop of Christmas.
Actually, there's one or more people I know who
prefer scratch tickets to /Real/ gifts. And
everything was on track to supply them with their
lottery fix when a crisis struck.
"The Forgotten Gift."
So the scratch card well had to be dipped into,
rather unexpectedly, leaving me a bit dry
elsewhere on my list. Problem was, there was
no longer the time to replace them piecemeal,
and of course Christmas had left me more
cash-strapped then usual.
Enter my brother....
Now my brother isn't a big spender. Which is
okay. He has three kids, lavishes them with
what he can, and for the rest of us he plopped
down $40 on scratch tickets, most of them
of the $1 variety, but a few of the $2 type. He
gave me 5 of the $1, which was cool, and I
immediately thought to re-gift them. Later on
someone gave me some more which, likelwise,
were added to the to-be-gifted pile. Together
with some more that I picked up at a local
convenience store, a sufficient gift quantity had
once again been achieved.
Why people like scratch tickets is a mystery to
me. I hate the damn things. They suck. Why,
just check out this year's $1 "Holiday Cash"
ticket for example:
They printed up just under 12.1 million tickets,
and the total prizes amount to LESS THAN
2.5 million... of which more than $1 million is
from $1 prizes.
There's only 84 tickets available for the top prize
of $2,500 -- one out of ever 144,000 tickets that
they sell.
The odds suck.
Unfortunately, not enough, because one of the
re-gifted $1 cards won $100 dollars.
Yes, my brother have me a $1 scratch ticket
which I passed along to someone else, and
that other person won $100.
It's my brother you should feel sorry for. Someone
else won $200 off another one of the other tickets
he gave away. Which is amazing. I mean, he spent
$40 on scratch tickets and those tickets won $300.
He should have kept them.
Werewolfy
"He should have kept it in his trousers"
How true.
Werewolfy