Seriously lottery people drive me NUTS with your stacks of tickets you take up to the cash to have checked (even though there is DIY machine in most if not ALL lottery retailers). Then most times you don’t scratch off the full barcode leaving the cashier to do it for you which holds up the line behind you (OBVIOUSLY THE BARCODE SHOULD BE SCRATCHED BEFOREHAND!!!!!!!). Then you take FOREVER to pick-out your new tickets like there isn’t a huge line forming behind you and you have all the time in the world. Then to top it all off some people (mostly the break-open addicts…you know who you are) get new tickets and proceed to check them while the cashier finishes your transaction and instead of walking the back of the line (like a considerate person) you stand there and collect your new prize thus creating an even BIGGER line behind you. —Tired of waiting behind you
This article appears in Mar 5-11, 2015.
If the proles didn’t have their circuses they’d be revolting in more sense than one.
Lol, this could have been written by me yesterday. Stupid old bag and her 50 losing lottery tickets. I waited 9 mins behind this old bingo bag yesterday while she got the clerk to check her tickets, then she double checked all the losing tickets, then she replaced what she won with more tickets, some with tag and twist and some not, then she went on a shopping spree of pull tabs, set for life, lucky sevens, etc… was ready to roll her up in a carpet and toss her off the bridge!!!
Gas stations and Lawton’s locations are the worst for this. Top notch bitch, OP.
You just feel like scratching their barcode right through their pants.!
Breakopen tickets are shady. How it used to work, and I assume it still does, is that outlets would by a set batch of breakopen tickets. In that batch, you would know how many $100 wins there were, how many 50, etc. (Not sure of the denominations any more).
So, that means an outlet might already know that all the $100 winners are gone. So it may mean that all the big prizes are gone but the tickets are still sold, and the buy has not shot at the bigger prizes but think they do. Or, if they keep track of those sold against what is left, they can figure out that there are so many $100 left and it may be cheaper to just pull the remaining tickets off the shelf.
The scratch tickets, pull tabs and video lottery seem to have a hold on those who can least afford them. I don’t care about the weekly draws like 649 but I think the instant win lottos are particularly addictive and should be abolished. I know that government likes the revenue, and sees it as a voluntary tax, but it’s tainted like blood money and I don’t think we should be accepting it.
You stupit lotto peoples might as well just hand your money right over to the government. You never win that shit, just annoy people in the meantime. Get in to Gambler’s Anonymous you annoyance!
Finally a valid bitch after so many stupid ones.
I hear ya. Last week (at Lawtons as previously pointed out) I was stuck behind one lady who shelled out over $50 in tickets.
That’s insane.
She wanted 3 lines of 6/49, all with tag/twist….
then another of the same….
then 3 rows of 3 for lotto max… with tag and twist…
and then another of the same.
god damn cashier was confused and ready to slap her.
If your lotto selection is longer than a fucking starbucks order, write it down for the poor cashier, would ya?
This is hilarious. I was waiting in line at Lawtons last Sunday when this lady comes up to me and says ” I was actually ahead of you but I wanted to get some juice”. Seeing she had two items including the juice, I said “sure, no sweat”. When she got to the cash, she plops the two items on the counter and then reach into her pocket and pull out a handful of lotto tickets. Totally slickered.
The other cash opened up and the three people behind me rushed over and got ahead of me. I went with them and still got out of the store faster than if stayed behind lotto lady.
Never trust those self checking machines they mess up. my wife works in a small retail store & has seen it and spoke of it many times.
But dear Bitches (& Bastards !?!)
Why is it when QE2 has a lottery, or a church or any Charity holds a lottery , by LAW. all prizes must be awarded.
When the government holds a lottery several times each week, there might be a winner, there might not be a winner. All the stupid fuckin’ sheeple who have a better chance of getting hit by lightning than winning the lotto …even IF the prize is won .
NEVER COMPLAIN ?
It’s mental illness IMO , cause they might win a bigger prize next draw is the excuse, yep your chances sure are gonna be better next time. Oops, no winner again try again.
“Obviously, the barcode should be scratched beforehand”. Really? Where does it say that on the ticket? I thought the barcode scratch was something the clerk had to do.
Crispy, that sounds like a true busybody bitch right there.
The elitism just beads right off their snooty brow.
This one drives me nuts, thank you for posting this.