Infamous: Lotto Story

I worked at the service desk of a grocery store on summer in Michigan. Among my duties were to tend to the lottery machine and sell scratch offs. It had never occurred to me just how serious some lottery players were.

For example, I was astonished to see a woman buy a $10 scratch off, lose, and then buy 4 consecutive $10 tickets, just to lose all of them. She lost $50 right in front of me.

Then there are the people who play their numbers every week. For whatever reason, these numbers are very significant and will some day help them to win big.

Well, a woman came in and asked for her numbers to be played for a Daily 4. I punched in the wrong numbers by mistake and printed the ticket. She refused to buy it since I had messed up her ticket. So I printed out another ticket with her numbers and she was happy. However, it was policy that every ticket had to be paid for, so I spent my own $1 to buy the botched ticket.

And won $50!

So much for her numbers.

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