[Magdalen] Lottery tickets

[Jay Weigel]

I've bought a few Powerball tikets over the years. Never won anything.
OTOH, I have a friend in WV who routinely buys lottery tickets, but only,
she says, when she gets a "hunch". She wins several hundred dollars 3 or 4
times a year, often enough to keep her buying them. She says she has always
come out ahead because she follows that "hunch".

On Saturday, February 13, 2016, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com> wrote:

> That is shocking--and depressing.
>
> When Virginia was debating the lottery 20-some years ago, all the main
> denominations came out against it. My daughter, who was in college, bought
> one ticket every week at the local 7-11. When I was visiting one weekend,
> she asked if I wanted one. I said I was afraid that if I bought a ticket,
> I'd win, and then I'd have to explain that to the Bishop!
>
> Fast forward a couple of years. At a clergy day the bishop was telling us
> about buying some lottery tickets one evening when a man recognised him and
> asked if it wasn't true that the Episcopal Diocese had come out against the
> lottery. The bishop replied that if he won, he would tithe a portion of
> it!  I went up to him afterwards and said, "NOW you tell us!" Since then I
> think I've bought two or three tickets.
>
> On February 13, 2016, at 6:37 PM, ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
>
> Yup.
>
>
> http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/05/lotteries-americas-70-billion-shame/392870/
>
> On Saturday, February 13, 2016, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
>
> > 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...)
>