Buying it not checked it until it has expired is about the stupidest thing one could do
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I can't mathematically justify buying lottery tickets, and totally agree it makes no logical sense from a pure math angle.
I've been on both sides of the counter with lottery tickets, worked at a convenience store for awhile, lottery is a huge pain in the (__$__), especially when you are the employee and have people wanting their cigs, you're also try to watch the monitor over the gas pumps to make sure some A- hole isn't doing something really stupid likely smoking a cigarette while pumping gas, and just a lot of people that expect instant service, then you get the regulars that are lottery junkies, you Know many by name or at least face. You're also trying to keep up making 6 different kinds of coffee.
Then you get the regular lottery junkies that want to know what ticket number is slot # 43
The old short bald fucker that likes to play the midday lotto and bases his picks in the afternoon after seeing the early results, then he verbally gives you his nighttime selections , it takes time and you can easily get a line of 5+ people in seconds
Granted it is nothing close to the stress issues an air traffic controller might face, or even a cop, fireman sort when involved in that rare condition when the shit t
Really hits the fan .
Convience store clerks are in fact in danger far more than you'd think, even in the best neighborhoods, there is so little cash there that robbery is pointless, stolen lottery scratch off tickets are not redeemable, you'd get busted real quick that way
The real money is the 100+ cartons of cigs that are worth so much more than the perhaps $200 cash the clerk can access.
SAme philosy robbing a Walmart, there could be $1,000 plus In a cash register , even as much as 3k since the lazy add CSM's won't bother to pick it up from you even if requested repeatedly.
The real money is at the customer service desk conviently located right by the exit doors
You got people sending moneygrams, paying utility bills, cashing paychecks etc. Easily 10k, maybe as much as 50k, much better option than to robbing a bank if you want to risk felony time in prison.
pa lottery sends out coupons alot and thats the only time i play...would say even using the coupons i still lose 75% of the time...horrible odds. my grandma has been playing for 60 years now and the most she might have won at a time is a couple K...cant imagine how underwater she is at this point. total sucker game
The math will justify the purchase, purely throw away money, but hey plenty of people throw away $10 a day on cigs, usually those that can least afford it
I'll spend about $4 a week on it when the jackpot is right . I don't shoot for the 500 million + Powerball/ Megamillion type of stuff. That stuff is 300 million to one Against you. I only play the original CT state classic lotto game that is only 8 million to one Against you and $1, not $2.
Jackpot starts at 1M, currently at around 10M, and that is the cash option. I won't play until it gets to at least 3-4 M
I buy it for 2 drawings at a time, so as to tickets for the twice a week drawing, I don't want to play it once hit, but also don't want to have to go to store more than once a week.
It can be difficult to find a clerk with a clue as to how to punch in the stuff for advance functions, forget about it at little stores run by foreigners that don't speak English.
I have a hard enough time with my friend at the liquor store that I've known for many years
I tell him exactly how to punch out the ticket I want, he screws it up Everytime.
He's a good guy to talk about local sports stuff kinda clueless in other matters. I literally have to go behind the counter and punch out my own ticket, I've tried to teach him how to use the more advanced options available on the lottery terminal machine, but he rivals my X- wife on the stupidty/ listening skills meter.
You have to account for every at shift change time, so you kind of have to buy any errors you make,no problemo, it's easy to sell error to tickets to the next lottery player, lottery folks are very stupidities, most will opt to buy the error tickets on the
Spot, if not just axing the next lottery junkie is like a 50 Percent successful endeavor
You
Spot
I'll spend about $4 a week on it when the jackpot is right . I don't shoot for the 500 million + Powerball/ Megamillion type of stuff. That stuff is 300 million to one Against you. I only play the original CT state classic lotto game that is only 8 million to one Against you and $1, not $2.
Jackpot starts at 1M, currently at around 10M, and that is the cash option. I won't play until it gets to at least 3-4 M
I buy it for 2 drawings at a time, so as to tickets for the twice a week drawing, I don't want to play it once hit, but also don't want to have to go to store more than once a week.
It can be difficult to find a clerk with a clue as to how to punch in the stuff for advance functions, forget about it at little stores run by foreigners that don't speak English.
I have a hard enough time with my friend at the liquor store that I've known for many years
I tell him exactly how to punch out the ticket I want, he screws it up Everytime.
He's a good guy to talk about local sports stuff kinda clueless in other matters. I literally have to go behind the counter and punch out my own ticket, I've tried to teach him how to use the more advanced options available on the lottery terminal machine, but he rivals my X- wife on the stupidty/ listening skills meter.
You have to account for every at shift change time, so you kind of have to buy any errors you make,no problemo, it's easy to sell error to tickets to the next lottery player, lottery folks are very stupidities, most will opt to buy the error tickets on the
Spot, if not just axing the next lottery junkie is like a 50 Percent successful endeavor
You
Spot
