[Magdalen] Lottery tickets

[Grace Cangialosi]

This morning I stopped at our local Sheetz for some coffee and noticed a new sign at the register. It was headed "Lottery Packs" and listed prices for packs of 100 tickets-- $1 tickets for $100, $2 tickets for $200...up to $5 tickets. I asked the young clerk if people actually buy them, and she said they'd just gotten them in, and she hadn't sold any yet, but that people have been asking for them. Absolutely blows my mind! Sheetz customers, by and large, are not particularly affluent. (But then, I don't know how folks can afford $50+ cartons of cigarettes, either...)