Chekhov's Mistress
Confessions: Lottery Tickets
I buy lottery tickets. I once splurged and bought $5 worth, but I usually just buy $1, or maybe $2. I have a personal rule that I only buy them when the jackpot is greater than the reciprocal of the odds (i.e. if the odds of winning Mega-Millions are 1 in 80 million, then I will buy a ticket when the jackpot is greater than $80 million).
I rarely ever check to see if I’ve won anything. I just like buying the ticket and for a few seconds imagining that I could indeed win and actually afford to live here (in New York City). I assume that if I won a lot of dough that it would be in the news that someone in this area won and has not come forward. I keep my tickets long enough for that to happen, but after a few have stacked up, I throw them away. It’s fun to participate in the American dream, but I’m one of those people that, if I were to become suddenly wealthy, I would spend the money so fast that I would be broke again just as quickly.
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- Posted by: Bud Parr
- Date: April 19, 2004
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Song of Myself: Diary
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