Today is my last day of playing lottery

[Marthe48]

I might play if the pot goes way up, but we've played close to 50 years, and I realize that I'm not going to win. I wanted to win a big pot and be Lady Bountiful. But I will be Lady Bountiful on the scale I'm used to. Life goes on

[XanaDUer2]

1. My one tiny indulgence is $1 scratchoffs

A few times a month. Won some money the other month. Not a lot.

[brewens]

2. I only ever played Powerball if I was with a bunch of people going in together. I didn't want to be the

guy that was still working while all his buddies or co-workers retired rich.

[JoseBalow]

10. Like Darryl on The Office

[lastlib]

3. The lottery is a tax on lousy math skills.

You have a better chance of being struck by lightning twice in the same year. It's also undemocratic at its core, elevating a small few to wealth entirely by chance.

[jimfields33]

8. I always thought if the prize was 36 million,

Why not 36 million dollar winners? Heck 565,000 dollars (after taxes) can definitely change lives.

[Think. Again.]

4. You are, and always have been...

...Lady Bountiful. You just don't happen to have lots of money.

[Marthe48]

9. Thanks

I had fantasies

[gibraltar72]

5. I had clients who won consistently.

Not big pots but smaller ones in Mi. lottery. Several $5,000 winners lots of $600 dollar winners. It was uncanny. They didn't buy lots of tickets either. Both retired, they were way ahead.

[Emile]

11. They should take their act to Vegas.

[Mr.Bill]

6. I've always figured

I have just about the same chance of winning if I don't buy any tickets at all.

[Chainfire]

7. I bought some tickets about 40 years ago.

We were on a family vacation and the kids were interested in the lottery. I bought 20 scratch-off tickets and told them that if they won, we would keep buying them. They were sure they would get rich. By the time we reached Dizzy World, they were broke. I don't think my kids have played again. I know I haven't. In my 72 years the only thing that I can recall "winning" was a nice Sony boom box in a Coca Cola promotion.

I am not opposed to a little gambling, but only in a game where I get to shuffle, deal, watch the other playersand get to see who wins when the hand is called.