Submitted by Michael on Saturday, June 16, 2007 - 19:51.
The guy in the copy shop was gesticulating to one of his customers.
"I almost won 37 million this week!"
"What d'ya mean?"
"That guy who won the jackpot - he bought it at the same store I get my tickets!"
The customer chuckled and checked his copies - perhaps imagining, as I was, what it would be like to win thirty-seven-million-dollars. Tax free.
The next day, my neighbours were talking about the lottery too.
"Yeah, he called her and said 'I won the lottery' - just like that - and you know what she did?"
"What?"
"She hung up on him. Thought he was crazy!"
"And?"
"And he called her back and he told her again - 'I won the lottery. Thirty-seven million."
"For real?"
"Yeah. For real!
I thought about the lottery tickets in my back pocket. I was getting a strong sense that if it could happen to someone I almost know maybe it could happen to me - a sort of Luck-By-Association thing. The jackpot was up to 40 million again this week - they had dumped excess money into it - unclaimed prize money. How could anyone not check their tickets? Heck, you can do it on the web!
I thought I should check my tickets soon. I'll go to their web site. The lottery web site has a search by date page - great, that should make it easy. How wrong I was. For your benefit, dear reader, I've scraped off the code from the web site and this is it. Just enter June 13, 2007:
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Select Lotto 6/49 Ticket Date and Search
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