I understand the simple concept of having to wait in line at stores, but I hate getting stuck behind those assholes to decide to bring their lottery portfolio and literally will spend ten minutes going through all their losses/wins. Use the self serve lottery machine ass-face.
Instead of wasting all of your money on the lottery how about applying those dollars to developing a real portfolio, and stop wasting my fucking time cause i hate waiting 10 minutes to buy one diet coke. —Down w/ lottery goblins
This article appears in May 6-12, 2010.
Shoplift the diet coke. Duh.
more than a ticket or two a week = simple moron with delusional dreams
Diet coke is so unhealthy… all that aspartame. You should totally switch to fruit juice. Vitamin C is the new Nutrasweet.
o.p., using the self terminal isn’t always the best idea,as i check mine online. more than once i have taken them to the place where i have bought them,scanned it, and got a losing sound, when i know they were a winner.made comment to store person, they checked, same thing. scanned into big machine, and lo and behold, the sound of a winning ticket.don’t get sucked into using those self scanners, they are wrong 80 per cent of the time. and you wind up tossing a winning ticket.i know a guy who went to a store with those things, and dug in the garbage can by it, got a bunch of tickets, and went to another place, won over a grand.so do not self scan tickets,check numbers on web site, then take to person at counter. you could be real sorry, if you don’t.
Last time I checked the self-scanners didn’t make a winning or losing sound, at least in the stores I stopped at.
People don’t read what the display says when they scan their tickets, it might have misread the bar code and then clearly says it couldn’t read it. Users often don’t wait for the laser beam to re-appear before scanning the next ticket and a duplicate “not a winner” message comes up. Once again it’s a user error.
The self-scanner and the actual 6/49 terminal scanner share a connection to the same database so I’m not convinced the self-scanner is in the wrong, it’s more of a user error.
I agree with this bitch OP.
Never had a problem with the self-scanner… I get a lot of the errors, but it beats the nuts out of waiting in line at the gas station. What I love are the old people that get the scratch tickets and scratch them, only to take them to the counter to find if they’ve won or lost because the scratch tickets they get are too complicated for them to understand. Then they’ll argue with the attendant about the outcomes. Grr that makes me angry.
By the way WTF, fruit juice these days has just as much sugar as pop. Especially the bigger variants, like Minute Maid, which have HFCS labeled as the second ingredient. Fruitopia is pretty bad too, although it now states on some varieties that they contain 25% less sugar.
My kids’ orthodontist said Minute Maid (and like products) paid for his Porsche.
do not under any circumstances give your wee ones juice in baby bottles…it will rot their teeth before the little buggers start poking through the gums VV
I tell every young mother the same thing, paingirl…especially when they put ‘just a wee bit’ of pop in the bottle. If sugar/sucrose/glucose/fructose/maltose/dextrose/any ‘ose’ is among the first half of listed ingredients than a babe should not have them in their bottle. Even pure juice should be watered down and minimal. Babes like water–it’s good for them and you can’t beat the price!
What the hell, what sane person would put POP in their kids bottle!
People who drink pop. They project their own cravings onto their baby’s. If it wasn’t for the obvious age restriction on alcohol, sometimes I think they’d give the baby a shot of rum along with that coke.
Hey, hey, hey! Giving a teaspoon of rye whiskey to a colicky baby is a time-honoured tradition in Canada. I got a few in my day… now where’s my beer….
a very small amount of vino blanco and water is a time honoured italian tradition
The cure for a colicky baby is 40 oz of vodka…into the parents
You think waiting behind these idiots is bad, try being the cashier that has to deal with them. When I worked as a cashier at a drug store I got all kinds of “lotto regulars” and it was annoying and kinda sad. There was this old man that would come in with a massive stack of tickets and get me to check all of them. I’m talking like 50+ tickets while there are people behind him. And he’d win like 3 dollars and buy $80 worth of tickets!! He’d lose track of how much he bought and always act so shocked when I told him the total. He’d still get them though. There was also this woman that would come in. I swear she was always drunk or heavily medicated. She did the same thing, get me to check a huge stack of tickets and joke about how her financial adviser told her to stop buying lottery tickets and how she would pay for my university “when” she won. I felt like the devil giving these people their tickets!
Oh and the people with “systems” are even crazier! They only wanted a scratch ticket that ended in a high even number, or get me to print out several terminal tickets until the number looked right. I loved to joke with people about the lottery..they’d ask what ‘tag’ was and I said “it’s another dollar for another set of number to lose on”. Frig. So happy to not to deal with lottotards anymore!!
Really though melectric, I’ve sold thousands upon thousands of lotto tickets for almost 3 years now at a certain drug store and I’ve probably had only 2 customers tops who’ve won anything over $20, and even then it was nothing more than $60. Playing the lottery is ALWAYS a waste people, you will NEVER come out on top.
“But maybe I’ll get luc-“
NO YOU WON’T!
My mom won $50,000 dollars on 649.
Sure it probably cost her $65,000 over the years to do it.
But she got it all on one check & she’s still playing “her numbers” but at 70 + ( don’t ever tell her I told you that) it makes her happy & at $5.00 a week it isn’t onerous.
Those people are just morons thinking they are going to win. Offer to take their money and give them nothing in return.
My peeve is when you are going to work in a morning and need to get gas, there’s always some pisstain who is buying tickets and asking the poor cashier to check the 5000 other ones they have – tasers were invented for a reason.
I dunno… for some of them, I’d upgrade to a cattle prod.
bzzzzt.
yes, 20 on pump 4
thanks.