re: Do you have a lottery story?

When I was a kid, Burger King had scratch offs and I won a whopper. Best moment of my life

I missed it by 6 numbers

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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.

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Damn I have same story

In the early days of the Louisiana Lottery, I got my dad to buy a scratch off called Louisiana Purchase at Delchamps. The prizes were variations of 1803.

We won 180 dollars. I remember getting him to go cash it in. It must have been the largest ticket to date they had cashed because they had to get a manager, verify the ticket, and then pull the money out of their safe which was oddly located on the ground behind the elevated platform where the manager worked out in the open.

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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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Was it $15? I hope it was. I know it was lower than the jackpots became because it was the first one.

I don't know about the too stupid part though. It wouldn't be what I would do but it is the dream of a lot of people and who am I to judge?

I have tried to find out what happened to this couple...can't find much. I hope they lived their dream, as simple as it seemed, and enjoyed life. I would bet they were broke within a few years but I hope not....

I have a good friend who inherited a sizeable family fortune...nothing crazy but enough to live comfortably for him and at least a couple of generations. I know he and his wife have suffered through a lot of stress worrying about NOT blowing that money. Life has a way of breeding stress no matter what your circumstances are. He studied and fretted over boats for 2 years before buying one LOL...most people would think that inheriting a pile of money would make life simple and it does on one hand but comes with a lot of problems most working people are ill equipped to cope with.

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Years ago when the Louisiana Lottery first started there was a policeman in central Louisiana that won 4 million dollars.The backstory is his wife was disgusted with his poor salary and that he was always working security details and overtime to make ends meet.She gave him an ultimatum,get a better paying job or she was leaving.She left and got a divorce,less that a year after the divorce was final he won the lottery.
He quit policing then,I was told by acquaintances of his he didn’t want to quit but he felt like he would be a lawsuit magnet.

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He probably would've been a litigation magnet.

As far as the divorce they were both probably better off. I can't imagine my marriage ending but I know people who have been in bad ones and when they ended they were shell shocked for a minute but most overcame it and did well...

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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.

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This happened to me too plus I got the powerball. Think I won like 100 bucks

1 more number and would have got 50k

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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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Is it stupid? They probably didn’t need a huge house, and wanted more land. Rather than blow it they just bought what they needed. It’s smart. Let’s say cash option of 15 mil plus taxes gets you around 7 million. Spend 1 million on land and home plus other small things and safely invest the other 6 million. Just a 3% return is 180k a year that you can live comfortably on and so will your kids and grandkids

I have a bunch of them, but this is my favorite.

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Too stupid to even have that much money.

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yeah...there are a lot of stupid people...

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Rebecca Paul was hired in February 1993 as the first president of the GLC. On June 29, 1993, the Georgia Lottery began selling tickets. First-week sales of more than 52 million tickets set a new opening week lottery sales record of $7.80 per capita. The Georgia Lottery was able to pay back its start-up line of credit within two weeks of start-up. Within five months, the Lottery met its first-year sales goal of $463 million, and ended its first full year in operation with $1.1 billion in total sales.

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