No, you are not a winner....

So everyday there are hundreds of gambling addicts just waiting to throw away there money to the good old government.  These are the frequent questions that we are asked at work, over, and over, and over, and over....."Is this the winning ticket?" "Is this the lucky ticket?" "Only winners please" (what we are actually thinking: Dear Sir or Ma'am, you live in a town of around 24,000 people and your chances are on in a million so you figure out the odds...what we have figured out is if you were to play a double dip twice a week and a lotto max you would spend 1040.00 a year, if you have been playing lottery for 30 years that means you have wasted 31,200.00 in those 30 years. But, ofcourse we should average in some winners and some free plays so let's say that you win on average about 10.00 a month (which is generous) than you would still be spending about 20,000.00 on lottery in that 30 years,  so the luckiest mover you could make would be to put your money back in your wallet.  Furthermore, there is not lucky colour of scratch ticket, red is not luckier than green it is all in your head.  MOST IMPORTANTLY: Not I, nor any other cashier, is aware of which ticket is the winner, in particular if we did know which ticket was the million dollar winner pretty sure we would not be enthusiastically handing it over to you, virtual stranger.  No, we would be giving it to someone who truly deserved it that we cared about, which let's face it, is not you.  And, just don't even get me started on Keno....a junky is a junky no matter what form they come in)