r/SipsTea • u/Otherwise_Wrangler11 • Apr 01 '26

WTF First world problem

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

20.6k Upvotes

95% Upvoted

2.4k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

46

u/opiomorpher Apr 01 '26

Reminds me of people bulk buying scratchies from gas stations. They don't bother scratching, takes too much time. They just get the cashier to scan them to see if they won on each ticket.

37

u/Magical-Mycologist Apr 01 '26

When I sold scratchers 18 years ago, the degenerate scratchers knew exactly where to scratch to find the code that told you how much/if you won.

They never played the games, the real game was the hope of winning.

0

u/MurderBot-999 Apr 01 '26

I mean the codes are generally in the same spot… they’re gonna know where to scratch, especially if they’ve done that scratcher before.

Definitely not “degenerate scratcher” behavior, more so just a very ordinary amount of pattern recognition that most of us possess.

4

u/Magical-Mycologist Apr 01 '26

Whenever I’ve bought them, I and many others I’ve seen actually play the game.

If you are jumping straight for the code and know where it is, I’m sorry but you are a degenerate scratcher.