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Do you have a lottery story?
Posted on 1/19/21 at 10:32 pm
Posted on 1/19/21 at 10:32 pm
Here is mine.
Back in the late 80s when the Florida Lottery was just getting started I was bowling in a Saturday night bowling league that usually ended around 11:00. A bunch of the guys would put up their bowling balls and go into the lounge for a beer after the league finished up. The lottery was only a few months old so everybody was buying lotto tickets and the bartender would watch the drawing on TV and write down the numbers so we could check our tickets when we came in.
So one Saturday I got a brilliant idea. The Jackpot was up to about $20 Million for the first time ever. This was before cellphones and wireless internet so I sent my wife across the street to the 7-11 store and told her to tune in to a local radio station that announced the numbers then run inside and buy me a ticket for next weeks drawing using this weeks winning numbers.
She got it back to me about 10 minutes after the drawing and I took it into the bar. I asked the bartender for the winning numbers then started screaming, "I won, I won". I told the guys I didn't have any cash on me but I'd take good care of my friends the rest of the season. LMAO I drank for free that night.
Back in the late 80s when the Florida Lottery was just getting started I was bowling in a Saturday night bowling league that usually ended around 11:00. A bunch of the guys would put up their bowling balls and go into the lounge for a beer after the league finished up. The lottery was only a few months old so everybody was buying lotto tickets and the bartender would watch the drawing on TV and write down the numbers so we could check our tickets when we came in.
So one Saturday I got a brilliant idea. The Jackpot was up to about $20 Million for the first time ever. This was before cellphones and wireless internet so I sent my wife across the street to the 7-11 store and told her to tune in to a local radio station that announced the numbers then run inside and buy me a ticket for next weeks drawing using this weeks winning numbers.
She got it back to me about 10 minutes after the drawing and I took it into the bar. I asked the bartender for the winning numbers then started screaming, "I won, I won". I told the guys I didn't have any cash on me but I'd take good care of my friends the rest of the season. LMAO I drank for free that night.
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Posted on 1/19/21 at 10:33 pm to AmazingSpiderDog
That would be pretty funny if true
Posted on 1/19/21 at 10:34 pm to Fox McCloud
Yes. My story is I lost the powerball and mega millions after I was sure I’d win. I daydreamed for literally minutes after buying the tickets. But all for naught.
Posted on 1/19/21 at 10:35 pm to AmazingSpiderDog
I’d be more interested in a Pharmacy Horror Story, if you have one of those.
Posted on 1/19/21 at 10:37 pm to AmazingSpiderDog
A friend of mine was on a flight to Montana and got in a conversation with the next guy. He was a lottery winner on the way to the ranch he now owned. That's all I got.
Posted on 1/19/21 at 10:40 pm to AmazingSpiderDog
I bought a ticket once. I didn't win.
Posted on 1/19/21 at 10:40 pm to AmazingSpiderDog
I once got the first 3 numbers correct in sequential order. Thought my heart was going to jump out my chest, and then it all came crashing down with the 4th number.
Posted on 1/19/21 at 10:46 pm to AmazingSpiderDog
CSB, tl/dr warning-
One of my Aunts was born in 1924.
She graduated from High School in 1942 and went to DC and enlisted in the Marines.
She had some clerical job but was active duty.
She met and married a guy from Guatemala there, he was finishing up his MBA at Georgetown.
His dad had emigrated from Germany immediately after WWI to Guatemala and soon after he got there, the guy won the big annual prize of the Guatemalan National Lottery.
The family didn’t run out of that money until the 1980s.
CSB but it’s all I’ve got as to any lottery story, I don’t ever play them.
EWE called it “a sucker’s game” and he was right.
One of my Aunts was born in 1924.
She graduated from High School in 1942 and went to DC and enlisted in the Marines.
She had some clerical job but was active duty.
She met and married a guy from Guatemala there, he was finishing up his MBA at Georgetown.
His dad had emigrated from Germany immediately after WWI to Guatemala and soon after he got there, the guy won the big annual prize of the Guatemalan National Lottery.
The family didn’t run out of that money until the 1980s.
CSB but it’s all I’ve got as to any lottery story, I don’t ever play them.
EWE called it “a sucker’s game” and he was right.
Posted on 1/19/21 at 10:52 pm to John Casey
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I once got the first 3 numbers correct in sequential order. Thought my heart was going to jump out my chest, and then it all came crashing down with the 4th number.
Similar story here except with 4 numbers on a powerball ticket. Think I only won about 50 fricking dollars. Looks like you can win a whopping 100 currently.
Posted on 1/19/21 at 11:00 pm to wheelr
Matched enough to buy a truck
Posted on 1/20/21 at 12:47 am to AmazingSpiderDog
Yes. When I can remember buy one, I don’t win.
This post was edited on 1/20/21 at 12:48 am
Posted on 1/20/21 at 4:37 am to AmazingSpiderDog
We had fun with those fake scratch offs on the rig once
Posted on 1/20/21 at 4:44 am to AmazingSpiderDog
I won the lottery once!!!
I was swimming with millions of other swimmers, and I made it to the finish first. I buried my head in the sand I was so exhausted, my tail fell off, and the rest is history.
sadly, this doesn't make me unlike the billions of others that swam a similar race
I was swimming with millions of other swimmers, and I made it to the finish first. I buried my head in the sand I was so exhausted, my tail fell off, and the rest is history.
sadly, this doesn't make me unlike the billions of others that swam a similar race
Posted on 1/20/21 at 5:18 am to AmazingSpiderDog
My mother got all the numbers but the power ball back in 92.
Posted on 1/20/21 at 5:36 am to Broyota2
My lottery story is I have never played nor will I. It’s called the poor tax for a reason
Posted on 1/20/21 at 5:55 am to AmazingSpiderDog
I remember a news series where they went and visited previous lottery winners a couple of years after they won. Most of them were dead broke already. Not the $100 million winners but the people who won a couple of million and then ran through it buying cars and houses like there was no end to the money. Pretty depressing.
Posted on 1/20/21 at 5:58 am to tigerbacon
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My lottery story is I have never played nor will I. It’s called the poor tax for a reason
More like a tax on the mathematically challenged. Being thusly challenged also leads to poverty but the bug ain’t played by the impoverished alone.....many amongst the middle class buy a ticket once in a while.....
I won $100 on a scratch off when the Florida lottery was in its infancy. Very exciting for a 18 year old taking home about $130 a week......until I read the back of the ticket and saw that the odds of winning $100 were nearly identical to winning a million in the lotto drawing.......I blew my million $ wad on a $100 scratcher LOL. I’ll buy a ticket a couple of times a year because it’s entertaining but that $100 win taught me a pretty solid life lesson about short cuts to prosperity
Posted on 1/20/21 at 6:08 am to AmazingSpiderDog
The man and woman who won the first Georgia lottery were raked over the coals when they were asked what they were going to do with the money and they answered “ buy some land and a double wide in Alabama”. Folks were outraged that these new “millionaires”.... probably $500k after taxes....would dream of such a mundane thing. Personally I was impressed.....those folks understood the value of time compared to money. Their winning meant one of the biggest expenses of life would not be a problem for them again......solid, practical thinking and ridiculed no end for their lack of vision......with a budget of $500k probably. I have no clue what became of this couple but I want to believe they enjoyed the hell out of that simple lifestyle.....it is appealing to many.
Posted on 1/20/21 at 6:13 am to AmazingSpiderDog
My mom won $100,000 on a scratch off a few years back. She had probably spent that much on them over the years, so she kind of broke even.
Posted on 1/20/21 at 6:14 am to GATGR1
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The man and woman who won the first Georgia lottery were raked over the coals when they were asked what they were going to do with the money and they answered “ buy some land and a double wide in Alabama”. Folks were outraged that these new “millionaires”.... probably $500k after taxes....would dream of such a mundane thing. Personally I was impressed.....those folks understood the value of time compared to money. Their winning meant one of the biggest expenses of life would not be a problem for them again......solid, practical thinking and ridiculed no end for their lack of vision......with a budget of $500k probably. I have no clue what became of this couple but I want to believe they enjoyed the hell out of that simple lifestyle.....it is appealing to many.
I remember that...they won $15 million not a million.
They were serious about the double wide in Alabama.
Too stupid to even have that much money.
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