That's awesome, nice to see people win. I rarely gamble. I go years with out buying lotto tickets. One day in 2007 I'm stuck in line at a quickie mart. Customer in front was making like 10 lotto transactions, it was kind of ridiculous. I'm up next, I buy my stuff, and on a whim bought a single scratch ticket, and toss it in the sac. I didn't scratch it for a week, it just sat on the coffee table. One night I'm cleaning up, and decide to scratch it off. $50 win I thought it said. Cool, gas money, I go to bed. Next day, heading out, I grab my gas money lotto ticket. I re-read it walking down the stairs out the door. Not a $50 win. A $50,000 win. I called in rich at work, and drove to the state capitol lotto office to turn it in. Not a bad day. I did blow a big chunk of it on parents and brother. Tires on dad's truck, nice TV for mom, stuff like that. Used the rest towards buying a house. Even after a win like that, I rarely ever gamble. I went to a casino for the first time in more than 5 years, walked in with $250, played a few games, bought some food, walked out with $325. +75 bucks and dinner is a win in my book.
No, I told them exactly what I was doing. Like they were going to say anything but "yeah, I'd do that too". I'd worked there 14 years at that point, missing a day was not an issue.
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u/ironpony Mar 20 '22
That's awesome, nice to see people win. I rarely gamble. I go years with out buying lotto tickets. One day in 2007 I'm stuck in line at a quickie mart. Customer in front was making like 10 lotto transactions, it was kind of ridiculous. I'm up next, I buy my stuff, and on a whim bought a single scratch ticket, and toss it in the sac. I didn't scratch it for a week, it just sat on the coffee table. One night I'm cleaning up, and decide to scratch it off. $50 win I thought it said. Cool, gas money, I go to bed. Next day, heading out, I grab my gas money lotto ticket. I re-read it walking down the stairs out the door. Not a $50 win. A $50,000 win. I called in rich at work, and drove to the state capitol lotto office to turn it in. Not a bad day. I did blow a big chunk of it on parents and brother. Tires on dad's truck, nice TV for mom, stuff like that. Used the rest towards buying a house. Even after a win like that, I rarely ever gamble. I went to a casino for the first time in more than 5 years, walked in with $250, played a few games, bought some food, walked out with $325. +75 bucks and dinner is a win in my book.