Subj : Play the lottery (was: GPS)
To   : DARYL STOUT
From : JOE MACKEY
Date : Mon Jan 13 2020 07:34:46

   Daryl wrote --

>   I haven't played the Arkansas Lottery in several months.

  I played the WV lottery once when it started in the '80s and tickets were
only 50 cents each.  I brought two, lost both times.  I cut my loses and
moved on.
  There was some big mega million national lottery several years ago.  
  I was working a basketball game and another LT (I was mere peon officer
at the time) came around wanting everyone to go in on a pool.  After a while
the only way to get him to leave me alone was give him a couple of dollars.
  In parking there was a police officer whose daughter was in the Girl
Scouts.  Every year he came around bugging people to buy a box.  
  One year this newbie kept saying no.  I told him to "just buy a box of
those stale cookies" and Jack would leave him alone.  He did and Jack did.  :)
  I said it was an extortion racket Jack had.  Give him a couple of bucks
and he would leave you alone.  :) 
 
>   So many who "hit it big" pay a big price in so many ways, afterwards.

  There are a too many stories to mention of people hitting it big, blowing
it and back where they started, or worse, a year or two later.
  I am reminded of the old joke.
  Every night this man prayed: Oh Lord, you know I have needs.  My wife is
sick, the kids need clothes, I lost my job (and on and on) and asked "Please
let me win the lottery".
  This went on every night for weeks.
  Finally one night after praying the man heard a deep, thundering voice
say "BUY A TICKET!"   :)

> Never mind those who can least afford it, spend everything they have on
> tickets.

  Playing the lottery is merely another tax, and one people gladly pay.
  When the WV lottery started there were all these claims it would solve
all the state's financial problems.
  It didn't.  The money seems to go down some rat hole, never to be seen
again.
  Joe
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