Addiction.

So one of the many duties of being a cashier is to sell Lottery and I utterly HATE IT. I feel like I'm indirectly feeding so and so's addiction to gambling. Some people win nothing, some win $2, $5, $20, the most I've seen is $50 in cash BUT majority is not HAPPY enough with their winnings, and decides to buy more lottery with the amount they just won.

WHY. I question this all the time. Why not work for your money? Why not save that few dollars, why not use your pay cheque towards something else more beneficial, more useful.

Once I had two different, unrelated guys buy $100.00 worth of lotto max tickets... like SERIOUSLY.. what are the chances of you winning? Today on shine FM.. I heard its like 1 in 28 million or something like that... secondly what if you don't win, that $100 bucks just went down the drain, when you could have done so much more with it!

So this got me thinking... say you DO win, that allowed you to not have to work so hard, or work at all. You've traveled the world a few times, maybe bought everything you needed: big house, sweet ride, and if he/she is compassionate, maybe they've donated some to a local charity or local disaster fund, then What?

Maybe this is why some celebrities resolve in drug use, plastic surgery, and all that ugly stuff... you've got so much money, you don't know what to do with it anymore. I even have customers tell me that if I gave them the winning ticket they would come back and buy me a car (eyes roll, yea right, you probably forget me right there and then)not like I feel obligated in getting something in return or that I doubt their chances of winning (actually, I do doubt) but just sensing their greediness drives me up the wall. Others say they're going to quit their job if they win, others get so mad at the cashiers if you give them a wrong ticket or you don't understand their lotto-lingo. Oh what I find ridiculous is that customers are WILLING to wait in a LONG line up that sells lottery, rather than go to a empty cashier just to pay for the rest of their goods and get out of the store.
SEE what people will do for a chance of BIG MONEY?!

Sigh* I wish I didn't understand lotto-lingo, but I'm starting to, and it just gets worse as Lotto Max raises the grand prize amount, but its just a job. JUST a job.

People should look to other things rather than money for happiness.

On a happier note, I was sewing a personal project today, and my auntie saw me turn down a lunch outing when my grandma had asked me to go, and she was like, "just let her sew, it can get addicting."

Well there's my personal addiction, and its not harming others, so maybe I shouldn't complain about those lotto-addicts but in the end, I hope you acknowledge where I'm going.