Author Topic: Winning the Lottery Jackpot (Read 1145 times)

RobbyRob · « **on:** December 09, 2011, 01:21:40 pm »

Lottery.
I think about winning the lottery everyday.
Its my meditation. I run over and over, even write it on paper like Rainman "Who's on first" (I.E: What would I buy first and then on and then on.)

So here's what I'd do, buy a 2011/12 Chevy Silverado 2500, Diesel, Crew Cab then go make a cash offer on a house I have been looking at for a while and ski all winter and surf all summer.

AvT · « **Reply #1 on:** December 09, 2011, 01:34:41 pm »

Quote from: RobbyRob on December 09, 2011, 01:21:40 pm

Lottery.
I think about winning the lottery everyday.
Its my meditation. I run over and over, even write it on paper like Rainman "Who's on first" (I.E: What would I buy first and then on and then on.)

So here's what I'd do, buy a 2011/12 Chevy Silverado 2500, Diesel, Crew Cab then go make a cash offer on a house I have been looking at for a while and ski all winter and surf all summer.

First you say this then your signature line says:

nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future

all is well, unless you DON'T want to damage your adventurous spirit

Raider Bill · « **Reply #2 on:** December 09, 2011, 03:00:11 pm »

I doubt I'd survive winning the jackpot and the party that would follow..

Of course I'd like to give it a shot

WH_Conley · « **Reply #3 on:** December 09, 2011, 03:17:30 pm »

Can I come to the party Bill?

Mooseherder · « **Reply #4 on:** December 09, 2011, 03:23:25 pm »

I just saw a Billboard that shows the Florida Lottery is 67 million this Saturday.
Property and a lot of it is one of the things on my list should I be lucky enough to win.
This is Florida though and the chance of getting hit by lightning is higher than winning the lottery.

Texas Ranger · « **Reply #5 on:** December 09, 2011, 04:08:35 pm »

Ah, you have the same lightning we have in Texas.

Sprucegum · « **Reply #6 on:** December 09, 2011, 04:55:07 pm »

A guy across the street from where I work won 40 million - - I haven't seen him since

Ironwood · « **Reply #7 on:** December 09, 2011, 05:05:55 pm »

WE have a couple sayings here on our hill, :

"I am headed to the shop to WORK on my luck"
usually in the evening followed by many hours of ACTUAL work.

"Make your own breaks".

"go with what you know".

We dont play the lotto, and quite frankly I consider it a,............ well, to put it nicely, A TAX on people who think they can get ahead by playing it.

Gotta go work o nmy luck,..........................

Ironwood

SwampDonkey · « **Reply #8 on:** December 09, 2011, 06:18:37 pm »

The whole dang thing is rigged anyway. The lottery terminal operators win more times than is statistically possible.

WH_Conley · « **Reply #9 on:** December 09, 2011, 06:24:13 pm »

I'm gonna win one of these days. I guess it would help the odds if I played it first. Never did get bit by the gambling bug. Except business, went out on a limb more times than I care to count. I have won more of those bets than I have lost. I guess it is like Ironwood said, make your own luck.

sandhills · « **Reply #10 on:** December 09, 2011, 06:35:50 pm »

I farm, that's enough of a gamble for me. My wife and I talk about it and both agree it'd be really cool to win just enough to get debt free and no more interest, dream on

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DanG · « **Reply #11 on:** December 09, 2011, 07:15:43 pm »

Quote from: Mooseherder on December 09, 2011, 03:23:25 pm

This is Florida though and the chance of getting hit by lightning is higher than winning the lottery.

It takes more than just being hit by lightning. You have to be hit by lightning at precisely the right moment. Years ago, when Florida first started the Lottery, a gas station attendant from Georgia came down to the state line to by a ticket. He went to the liquor store located fifty yards inside of Fla. and stood in line with all the other Georgia people. He had marked his card already, and was fortunate enough to have progressed to the inside of the building before the storm started. It was raging pretty good by the time he reached the front of the line and handed his card and his dollar to the clerk. The clerk stuck the card into the machine, and lightning struck the power lines at that very moment. The momentary hit didn't do any damage, but the brief outage caused the machine to fail to print the ticket. So, the clerk stuck it in again, got the ticket, and the man went back to the gas station in Moultrie, Ga. Well of course, that was the winning ticket, or I wouldn't be telling this.

The ironic thing was that there were two winning picks registered in the Lottery's computer, so they awarded the guy half of the six million dollar prize and he was exceedingly happy. The other winner never showed up to collect until somebody noticed that the other winner was entered in the same machine just fifteen seconds before the winning ticket was printed. They finally figured out what had happened and gave the guy his other three million smackers. Now if that ain't the DanGedest stroke of luck you ever heard of, I'd sure like to hear your story!

WDH · « **Reply #12 on:** December 09, 2011, 10:08:06 pm »

That is amazing. That is what you call a "stroke" of luck.

I have only ever bought one lottery ticket, and that was because of a really bad work situation that day, and I said, "What the hey, maybe I will win the lottery and lose this place."

If I did buy another ticket, and if I did win, I would buy a whack of land. Land with trees on it. A whack of trees on a whack of land. And, I would send a whack of time on it. No Times Square for me.

Magicman · « **Reply #13 on:** December 09, 2011, 10:23:55 pm »

I think maybe I have already won it. I just did not have to buy a ticket.

Ironwood · « **Reply #14 on:** December 09, 2011, 10:33:53 pm »

Magicman,

DITTO.

Ironwood

Mooseherder · « **Reply #15 on:** December 09, 2011, 10:38:00 pm »

We occasionally buy tickets but I would say less than twenty per year.
One thing for sure. Winning doesn't require any skill.
We were on vacation in Maine a few years ago when my brothers and I pooled a few dollars for the Lotto. We hit 5 out of 6 numbers. It paid a thousand dollars.

The grand prize that week was 2 million.
We were working that night on painting my truck when my mother and daughter called all excited.
It was a pretty neat deal that lead to the question "what if we had won the whole thing"?

WDH · « **Reply #16 on:** December 09, 2011, 10:42:33 pm »

You could pay somebody to paint that truck.

Mooseherder · « **Reply #17 on:** December 09, 2011, 10:44:40 pm »

. For sure!

isawlogs · « **Reply #18 on:** December 09, 2011, 11:13:10 pm »

I don't buy that many tickets ... maybe less the Glen

But in the odd chance I did win the biggun, there would be a lot of morgages paid off. Might even find time to travel some.

Brucer · « **Reply #19 on:** December 10, 2011, 01:39:22 am »

I've done pretty good on the lottery, because I know how to play the odds.

I just pretend I bought a ticket every week, so I actually "make" a hundred bucks a year

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One of my high school classmates won $3,000,000 when he was forty. I made a mess of his life. His wife finally had to quit her job (one she enjoyed) because she was always being criticized by coworkers for keeping a job that someone less fortunate could have. He had to hire a bodyguard for his daughter's graduation ball because he'd been told to "share the money" or something would happen to her. He gave up getting together with former classmates because most of them were hitting on him for "just a small loan". None of it would have happened in a big city.

Another classmate won $500,000 -- twice in 10 years. He put both winnings into a locked-in retirement fund and went on living his life as usual. Anytime someone tried to hit him up for some "a loan" he just said he couldn't touch it until he retired. I suspect he could, but that's his business, not mine.

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Author Topic: Winning the Lottery Jackpot (Read 1145 times)