Bryan W. Alaspa 1Lottery confusion
September 21st 2009 13:25
One thing I just do not understand is the lottery. I suppose I am the exact type of person that the various states does not like. No, they prefer the people who just have an itch to gamble on a regular basis. I mean, if I am going to spend a dollar or more every morning, I would rather do so for an iced tea or something like that than trying to win something I know I will never win.
When I talked about how I was afraid to fly, I was told by many people that the odds of my plane crashing were so small that it was nothing to be worried about. Some of these same people would probably tell me that the odds were so against me that it was a waste of my time while standing in line buying lottery tickets.
Here is my idea for those of you who like to play the lottery. Take a hand-full of dollar bills, open the window of your car when you are on the highway, and just open your hand and let those bills fly. Quite frankly, that is all you are doing with the money you are spending on the lottery. Plus, you’ll be on the news for creating a small riot and probably a number of automobile accidents behind you.
I have friends who seem to honestly feel that their only way of being successful is by playing the lottery numbers. If money is that much of an issue, why are you spending even a dollar on a lottery ticket? Sure, you say, each morning, it’s just a dollar. Yes, but when you do it every day, every week, every month, then those dollars add up pretty quickly, don’t you think?
The fact is that the lottery is state-sponsored gambling. For some reason conservatives don’t seem to have problems with this part of the government intruding into our lives. In theory, this money is supposed to be going for various things the state can use the money on such as schools and roads. If you look around the various states, though, and then consider the sheer volume of people who are playing the lottery every day, and then look at the roads and schools you know that the money is not going where it is supposed to be.
I spend every morning in a 7-11 usually getting an iced tea. I am always standing behind mostly elderly people who are there either checking their lottery tickets or buying new tickets. They buy the daily draws that you see on television and then spend a small fortune on the damn scratch-off lottery tickets. So many people were doing that and then scratching off the damn lottery tickets that the store had to make it a policy that once you buy the scratch-off tickets you had to go outside.
Most of these people will not win. If they win anything, it will be a pittance that doesn’t even come close to making up for the amount of money they just spent on those tickets. Most of the time the win they get is another lottery ticket. All of this just seems like some kind of insanity to me.
You are not going to win the lottery. Those people who have won big in the lottery, always end up miserable. You would do much better to save your money somewhere and using it on something you actually need. Is it really any fun? It sure doesn’t look like it to me. Now, I had better just shut up before the secret state lottery police show up at my door.
When I talked about how I was afraid to fly, I was told by many people that the odds of my plane crashing were so small that it was nothing to be worried about. Some of these same people would probably tell me that the odds were so against me that it was a waste of my time while standing in line buying lottery tickets.
Here is my idea for those of you who like to play the lottery. Take a hand-full of dollar bills, open the window of your car when you are on the highway, and just open your hand and let those bills fly. Quite frankly, that is all you are doing with the money you are spending on the lottery. Plus, you’ll be on the news for creating a small riot and probably a number of automobile accidents behind you.
I have friends who seem to honestly feel that their only way of being successful is by playing the lottery numbers. If money is that much of an issue, why are you spending even a dollar on a lottery ticket? Sure, you say, each morning, it’s just a dollar. Yes, but when you do it every day, every week, every month, then those dollars add up pretty quickly, don’t you think?
The fact is that the lottery is state-sponsored gambling. For some reason conservatives don’t seem to have problems with this part of the government intruding into our lives. In theory, this money is supposed to be going for various things the state can use the money on such as schools and roads. If you look around the various states, though, and then consider the sheer volume of people who are playing the lottery every day, and then look at the roads and schools you know that the money is not going where it is supposed to be.
I spend every morning in a 7-11 usually getting an iced tea. I am always standing behind mostly elderly people who are there either checking their lottery tickets or buying new tickets. They buy the daily draws that you see on television and then spend a small fortune on the damn scratch-off lottery tickets. So many people were doing that and then scratching off the damn lottery tickets that the store had to make it a policy that once you buy the scratch-off tickets you had to go outside.
Most of these people will not win. If they win anything, it will be a pittance that doesn’t even come close to making up for the amount of money they just spent on those tickets. Most of the time the win they get is another lottery ticket. All of this just seems like some kind of insanity to me.
You are not going to win the lottery. Those people who have won big in the lottery, always end up miserable. You would do much better to save your money somewhere and using it on something you actually need. Is it really any fun? It sure doesn’t look like it to me. Now, I had better just shut up before the secret state lottery police show up at my door.
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