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I only play when the jackpot gets ridiculously high, knowing that I'm basically throwing away $2 on a bit of daydreaming and maybe some water-cooler conversation.
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Years ago a shipmate and I used to buy one about once a week and sit in front of the TV during the drawing and ballyhoo over the hookers, blow and Rolls-Royces we were going to buy and then piss and maon when we didn't win.
It was a fair deal. We got well over a buck's worth of entertainment for a buck.
Actually the BEST lottery story I recall was when some asshole tug mate came on board waving a couple of tickets around babbling how he was going to get rich, quit and retire to someplace.
He put the tickets down for just an instant when he went to the head to pee. That's all it took for the AB to write down one of the ticket numbers.
That afternoon when he got off watch he told the oncoming AB to watch the drawing and write the winning number down on the galley whiteboard.
Of course the AB wrote his ticket number down on the white board and when the mate checked he thought he had won 37 million or some such thing.
The dumb bastard walked off the boat the minute we tied up and has not been seen since.
Good riddence to bad trash!