The Lottery, and what it means to me....

[Eddie Watkins]

Interestingly (or sadly) there are a lot of folks who do categorize the lottery (and Vegas...) as a "Banking and Finance" entry. It should really be under "Games and Entertainment".

I admit that I occasionally will buy a PowerBall ticket when the number gets large...but it seems that most winners live in "different demographics" than I do...they either win the lottery or get hit by tornados.

My chances are a whole lot better? to get hit by a tornado. I buy a ticket for both drawings every week when I stop to get gas. I use the same numbers. Last week I didn't need gas so I didn't get a ticket. I would have won $35. Now I'll have to wait another year to hit a winner again.
LOML calls it her retirement program since I am already retired and she still has a few years to go.

[Cliff Rohrabacher]

Well on the up side the term "lottery" doesn't mean you get stoned by the village.

[Mitchell Andrus]

Well on the up side the term "lottery" doesn't mean you get stoned by the village.

One of my favorite short stories.

We really haven't come very far, have we?....
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[Matt Ocel]

I file it under "it temporarily takes me away".

I typically spend $3 per week on the lottery. After I buy the ticket, (as probably everyone does), I daydream of all the good junk I would buy. After about 10 - 15 minutes, I quit daydreaming and get back to reality, but for that short time while I'm daydreaming, I'm in utopia.

BTW - When I win, I'm going to be spending money like a drunken sailor.


Anchors away my boy!!!!!

[mark page]

I play the same numbers every week. If I quit now, they'd be sure to win. If I did win, I'd probably have to hire Clardy to come over and cut wood while I watch. Maybe even get Larry Merlau to come down and supervise too!!!!!

[Rich Engelhardt]

Hello,

I file it under "it temporarily takes me away".

I typically spend $3 per week on the lottery. After I buy the ticket, (as probably everyone does), I daydream of all the good junk I would buy. After about 10 - 15 minutes, I quit daydreaming and get back to reality, but for that short time while I'm daydreaming, I'm in utopia.

Bingo! (no pun intended ).
It's the "thrill" of the bet - win or lose.
I equate it with fishing as a past time.
I don't like to get "skunked", but w/out those fishless outings, the times I tie into a lunker or a "mess of em", wouldn't seem as special.

I file it under "drug of choice".

[Ken Fitzgerald]

When I was 5 years old, my father got so far in debt at a local VFW where we lived then.....playing poker......he had to sell the home he and Mom owned....to pay off his gambling debts. Dad died some 18 years later...never owning another home.

In 1977, the company by whom I was then employed had a regional meeting in Reno. Spouses were allowed to attend at company expense. The LOML and I took $100 with us. We attended meetings. My left handed wife came home with her right arm bigger than her left after 3 days. On Saturday night dinner and entertainment were our expense. We had stage side seats and dinner and saw Norm Crosby the comedian and Jack Jones the singer. We came home with $50 left of our original $100.

We have a casino on the Nez Perce reservation on the edge of town here. We've been there twice when they offered breakfast buffets on Sunday mornings. It cost me $5 each time for my wife to try her right arm on those one armed bandits.

If the lottery gets over $100 million....the LOML sometimes buys a single ticket. I bought one once.

[Ken Fitzgerald]

It just dawned on me.....


I'm a bigger gambler than my Dad was.....


Boys and girls can you say "401K and the stock market?"

[Dennis Peacock]

Never bought a lottery ticket.....the only time I've ever even seen one was when I went to Philly on work related travel. So I say...What's a lottery any way.??

[Benjamin Dahl]

i buy a ticket occasionally when the jackpot is large, like others here. I do know that if I ever won I would say "I've always been really good at the lottery". Unfortunately, I used to work with some people who thought skill was involved.

[John Schreiber]

Well on the up side the term "lottery" doesn't mean you get stoned by the village.

I don't get it. Please enlighten me.

[Richard M. Wolfe]

I've been following the thread and the replies are the same as I usually hear. "I only buy a ticket if the pot gets big.........." I say "me too - - who wants to mess with a piddling fifteen or twenty million?".

My stepmother's favorite thing in life was to go to Las Vegas. She loved the glitz and sparkle. And she alsways fed the one armed bandits. Her philosophy was right; she had a set amount that she would lose and no more. But there was no way she was going to leave before she lost that much. If she had won big to start with she would have probably died of old age sitting in front of a slot.

[Thomas Knighton]

I don't get it. Please enlighten me.

Here ya go: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lottery

Tom

[Chris Padilla]

The Lottery: You can't win if you play and you can't win if you don't play.

[Cliff Rohrabacher]

One of my favorite short stories.

Just don't call me Tessie.

We really haven't come very far, have we?....
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All things considered ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ I guess we haven't