Why do people get mad when I buy lottery tickets??(just lol @ them)

[jtaylor2010]

Usually about twice/week I’ll stop in for lottery tickets. I always get a powerball and mega millions, and I usually go with a few scratch offs just to try my luck. Now, admittedly sometimes it takes a minute or two because I have to listen to my instinct and make a good choice, but I don’t understand all the hate. It’s not always bad, but sometimes I can hear audible sighs and often times people look at me sideways as I’m leaving. It used to bother me more, but now I don’t really give a sh!t. Why?? Because who the fukk are you? You’re in a gas station early on a Monday morning too so it’s not like you are doing great either, so why the fukk are you hating on me? Go get your fukking coffee or vitamin water and take your ass to work like the rest of us. Just lmao at taking out your frustrations on me because you don’t like your life.



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[blueberryboy]

Usually about twice/week I’ll stop in for lottery tickets. I always get a powerball and mega millions, and I usually go with a few scratch offs just to try my luck. Now, admittedly sometimes it takes a minute or two because I have to listen to my instinct and make a good choice, but I don’t understand all the hate. It’s not always bad, but sometimes I can hear audible sighs and often times people look at me sideways as I’m leaving. It used to bother me more, but now I don’t really give a sh!t. Why?? Because who the fukk are you? You’re in a gas station early on a Monday morning too so it’s not like you are doing great either, so why the fukk are you hating on me? Go get your fukking coffee or vitamin water and take your ass to work like the rest of us. Just lmao at taking out your frustrations on me because you don’t like your life.



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I Also play the lottery
And I think you are over thinking or imagining these other customers reactions you just need to not care

I play a couple times a week too religiously.
Hey , I got a couple extra bucks and imagine how life changing a big $ win would be.

To me , it makes sense to play the lottery . Just play within a budget

[backinthegymbro]

I buy one ticket once a year, every december. Why? Because i enjoy the 10 minutes of fantasizing about what i'd do with the money.
That's worth the few dollars i spend on it.

[AltarOfPlagues]

the chad lotto player vs the virgin value investor

[jtaylor2010]

the chad lotto player vs the virgin value investor

I didn’t even think about this angle but I bet this has a lot to do with it because I mog pretty much all of them. Funny how they never say anything when I turn around.

[nm1891]

I never get mad, take your time paying your idiot tax.

[MFarrar74]

I gotta wake my ass up at 6am every morning this week--drive up to Las Colinas--yeah I'm doing the drywall at the new McDonalds.

[blueberryboy]

I never get mad, take your time paying your idiot tax.

Hahaha tell that to be the ppl who got rich af

[Hector002]

You have to create your luck. No point in dreaming about winning if you never play. I only buy tickets maybe twice a year.

[nm1891]

Hahaha tell that to be the ppl who got rich af

This is like saying that you never go outside because you dont want to get hit by lighting. Then, when told that you're being ridiculous your response is, “tell that to the people who have been hit and killed by lighting!” The only difference is that you have a higher probability of being hit and killed by lightning than winning the powerball jackpot.

[supup]

I gotta wake my ass up at 6am every morning this week--drive up to Las Colinas--yeah I'm doing the drywall at the new McDonalds.

What would i do if i won the lottery?



Two chicks at the same time man

[BetaAsPhuck]

Is this an aware thread, or did Jtaylor's account get hacked?

[blueberryboy]

This is like saying that you never go outside because you dont want to get hit by lighting. Then, when told that you're being ridiculous your response is, “tell that to the people who have been hit and killed by lighting!” The only difference is that you have a higher probability of being hit and killed by lightning than winning the powerball jackpot.

You can't win if you don't play

And the thing about lotteries...someone eventually always wins.
And yeah I dont play power ball because I dont live in the USA

The lotteries here are smaller jack pots ussually with better odds

I play...but would I drop a lot of cash on it ? No . Maybe 10 bucks here and there that other wise id spend on some other bs that gives me no chance to get any money.

It's suppose to be for fun

[blueberryboy]

This is like saying that you never go outside because you dont want to get hit by lighting. Then, when told that you're being ridiculous your response is, “tell that to the people who have been hit and killed by lighting!” The only difference is that you have a higher probability of being hit and killed by lightning than winning the powerball jackpot.

And lol tell me 1 other way you can get rich literally over night ?

Brb work your ass off for your whole life and die worth a few Ms if you are lucky ...and by the time you have enough money to flex and stunt on people you're so damn old that it doesn't even matter anymore

Brb get some numbers right and become instant rich over night ...unlikely yes , but ill take my chance . All part of my entertainment budget


At 27 ...even if I won 250k or 500k or 1 m ...that would be live changing to a certain extent

[blueberryboy]

And lol tell me 1 other way you can get rich literally over night ?

Brb work your ass off for your whole life and die worth a few Ms if you are lucky ...and by the time you have enough money to flex and stunt on people you're so damn old that it doesn't even matter anymore

Brb get some numbers right and become instant rich over night ...unlikely yes , but ill take my chance . All part of my entertainment budget


At 27 ...even if I won 250k or 500k or 1 m ...that would be live changing to a certain extent

And I dont mean I'm not grinding out there regardless, I am . But the chances of me all of sudden in the relative near future having the type of money to own super cars etc without winning the lottery is next to 0 as well

Brb what looks better...a 27-28 year old rolling up in a porche / lambo / rarri

Or some 65 year old dude that is way past his prime that played his cards right his whole life ?


Il take my chances.

[nm1891]

And I dont mean I'm not grinding out there regardless, I am . But the chances of me all of sudden in the relative near future having the type of money to own super cars etc without winning the lottery is next to 0 as well

Brb what looks better...a 27-28 year old rolling up in a porche / lambo / rarri

Or some 65 year old dude that is way past his prime that played his cards right his whole life ?


Il take my chances.

That’s fine, just realize how incredibly tiny those chances are.

[DrumsNotDead]

If it's your money you're free to do with it what you will. People look down on poor people spending money on lotto because it's stupid since the odds are astronomical (power ball is roughly 1 in 292,201,338)that it ever pays off seriously and it's just throwing away what little money they do have. Most people like to look down on others, welcome to Earth.

[blueberryboy]

That’s fine, just realize how incredibly tiny those chances are.

Oh I know man it would be a total mind fk to actually win

Not counting on it but I like to dream big sometimes haha

There's ussully 1 winner and a whole lotttttt of losers lol

[GainzMcgee]

the chad lotto player vs the virgin value investor

its true, the risk reward of playing the lotto for $2 vs "investing" is probably a better opportunity. That curve shifts of course the higher you go in price.

[elterrible987]

I just got some the other day, first time in like 10 years.

I like to play it every so often, because why not. Ive wasted a lot more than the $10 I am going to drop on dumb impulse buys on amazon

[jtaylor2010]

its true, the risk reward of playing the lotto for $2 vs "investing" is probably a better opportunity. That curve shifts of course the higher you go in price.

And of course that $2 is taken care of by making better purchases elsewhere. For example I take a water bottle so I don’t have to buy water, and anything else they sell in a gas station I’d buy in a grocery store like a normal person. Just lmao at someone hating on me while they spend 350% more for their drink and snack than I did just because I didn’t have to buy it in a gas station.

[riley444]

jel at the thought of you actually winning.

[jtaylor2010]

jel at the thought of you actually winning.

I’ve actually won quite a few times over the years....jfl at “you didn’t win 700,000,000 dollars so you wasted your money”.

[GOATisLife]

Lottery isn’t necessarily bad.

You can wait until it rolls over to like $700m+

This has happened a few times before and go big at that point.

Playing when it’s under 100m is like taking your $1 giving it to the cashier and him giving you 40 cents back.

Playing when it’s at 700m is like you giving the cashier $1 and him giving you $1.30 back(50%) tax.

That’s why all the big boys wait for it to roll over and come with big ticket buys, the simpletons just keep buying every week donating.

[BG5150]

People sigh b/c you're holing up the line.

The worst are the people who ask for pick threes, like 5 of them, for both midday and evening. Then they bring in 10 win $2 or free ticket scratch-offs and stand there perplexed on which new tix to get. Then they hand the clerk a fistful of tickets to see if any of them are winners.

And these people always seem to buy the most obscure cigarettes, the ones where they have to guide the clerk to where they are. "Next tot he blue ones. No, the other blue ones. Up, up, up. too far. Down, down, down, too far. Over to the left, two levels down. That's it. Four packs please."

*pays for everything*

"See you tomorrow, Rajay."