Lottery!

[rain_gryphon]

Like everyone else in the country, I've now gone out and bought a lottery ticket :)

It's not even the winning that's the point. It's all over the news, and it's fun just to do what everyone else is doing.

Comments

[pyesetz]

I'm a rebel!  I don't buy what the rest of the herd is buying!

[xolo.livejournal.com]

Now and again, it's fun to do the same thing everyone else is doing. There's a sense of being part of the herd.

[xolo.livejournal.com]

I think that's the slogan of lotteries the world around.

[whitetail.livejournal.com]

I'm actually ahead on the CA Lottery! In 1986, I bought 3 $1 scratchers and got two $2 winners. Came out $1 ahead, and never bought another ticket since. ^^

[xolo.livejournal.com]

Years and years ago, I was on a roadtrip to Millenicon with a carload of furs, and we stopped at a gas station. I bought a scratchoff ticket, and won two dollars with it. I prevailed on the driver to stop at the next station so I could cash in my ticket. I spent the money on two more tickets, and that time I got five dollars. We stopped again. That time I got twenty dollars. By that time we were stopping about every half hour, everyone was buying tickets, and everyone except me was losing their money. I arrived at the con with something like $70 more than I'd started with. I was insufferable. Panda said he considered just driving off and leaving me at a gas station, but he was sure if he did I'd just show up a few hours later in a Rolls Royce.

[spaceroo.livejournal.com]

Sadly, I too went with the lemmings on this one. Spent one dollar on the way home. I think it's the first lotto ticket I've bought since moving here... twelve years ago.

[xolo.livejournal.com]

I go through phases where sometimes I play each week, and then other times not at all. It's been at least a year since I've bought a ticket, I think, and this time just because people were chatting about it at work, it was on the news, etc. I just wanted to be part of the event.