so who is going to buy lotto tickets?

TexasTideFan

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Our office pool is $400 (40 people). We got this thing cornered. That money is as good as spent.
Make sure the buyer of said tickets doesn't decide to buy some on his own and screw the other 39 out of your due.

I know the odds of hitting the lotto are probably about as remote as getting nailed by Halley's Comet but a dude down the street from me won the Texas Lotto a few years back. All he did was spend $1 at the Exxon. Sometimes, it might just be your lucky day.
 

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I've never bought my own lottery tickets, but a couple of times I've joined an office pool. I consider my participation insurance against having to kill myself if I'm the only one in my office that didn't win.
My dad used to work with a bunch of guys (about 6) down in NZ who would collect bottles and buy lotto tickets after work. With him being the only "Yank" at the (treatment) plant they gave him the cold shoulder, but after a while started asking if he wanted to pitch in on the pool. He basically told them they were a bunch of tards for blowing money on lotto tickets and told them to go do you-know-what. Well after he came back to Alabama he got a call from the plant manager asking if he wanted his job back with a raise. Apparently those guys had won several million in the lottery and had all quit their jobs. To this day, my dad can't resist buying a lottery ticket when the pot gets really high.
 

DzynKingRTR

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Had an uncle once who used to buy lotto tickets all the time. He once gave me a ticket that had some numbers right on it. he said he thought there was $10 in winnings and told me to go and collect and I could keep the cash. It turned out it had $150 in winnings. I debated whether or not to keep it and not tell him. I ended up telling him and he let me keep it anyway.
 

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I'll probably 'win' more than any of you, relatively speaking, since I didn't buy any.
That little hope of optimism and 20 second drift of day dreaming that a $1 dollar lottery ticket represents is worth every penny intrinsically to me and some!

But I'm sure you will sleep just fine knowing that you just saved a whopping dollar that the rest of us just thuggishly non-conservatively wasted for this pipe dream...
 

Bamaro

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That little hope of optimism and 20 second drift of day dreaming that a $1 dollar lottery ticket represents is worth every penny intrinsically to me and some!

But I'm sure you will sleep just fine knowing that you just saved a whopping dollar that the rest of us just thuggishly non-conservatively wasted for this pipe dream...
Not opposed to it, just didn't happen to be where they were sold.