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Originally Posted by Jacklad
The bigger question, though, is why so many people play the lottery.
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Two reasons:
1) When you've got nothing, you've got nothing to lose.
2) When you've got enough extra money to buy a little excitement once a week, lottery tickets are a cheap thrill.
What kills me is the people who always play the same numbers because "They have to come up sooner or later!"
Of course I always played the same numbers too, but I did it because I'd feel like a horse's rear end if the numbers I played last week won this week. For the same reason, when I didn't have a ticket, I made it a point to
not know which numbers won.
I still buy an occasional ticket, just for the heck of it, but now I'm more likely to buy a scratch off. They have better odds of winning. Either way, it's a cheap way to rent a dream for a few days.
The sad thing is all the people who really think they have a decent change of winning.