[Gemme]

Originally Posted by Blade

Do you play the lottery? Buy scratch offs? How often...how much...have you ever won? If you don't play, is there a reason...religion..wasteful...What are your lottery thoughts? I think we have a thread on what would you do if you won the lottery, but I haven't seen a lottery discussion or opinion thread.

We play from time to time. We do the drawings, not the scratch offs, though I used to do the scratch offs.

When I lived in Daytona, I bought one on a lark one day and won some cash and then won some more and then...on and on...until about 3 to 3.5 months later, when I picked a dud. Then I stopped. All in all, during the time frame I got about 10 free scratch offs and somewhere in the vicinity of $300 in cash.

We've won the lottery a couple of times. Once, was a couple of bucks and the other was about $9.

My coworkers on the other hand, tend to be very lucky. Past coworkers, I should specify. I had one that would take a twenty into the casinos and walk away with a thousand, regularly. It was how she was able to stay afloat when her husband got hurt and couldn't work. There was another one who'd won the lottery a couple of times. Not the whole kit 'n caboodle, but a few thousand each time.

Must be nice.