A topic I've never seen discussed, so thought I'd get the ball rolling. I work at petrol station/convenience store, and we have a lottery stand, as well as a selection of differently priced scratch cards. Perhaps due to my conservative upbringing I was intrigued by the amount of money people would spend on these (I had no idea how the lottery system worked aside from the vague notion of pick some numbers, since my parents never did it). Some people would take a couple or just a pounds worth of tickets with their shop, and of course it escalates, elderly ladies coming in with lists for twenty pounds worth of tickets, you get my drift.
Then occasionally you get a head scratcher, we are just across the road from the local nightclub, so there are normally a lot of young people in on a Saturday night under various amounts of alcohol. Anyway for some reason it really enhanced the amounts of scratch cards sold, one fellow bought 4 ten pound cards at once, he didn't even seem that drunk, and BTW he did them right there so I know he got nothing for it.
Anyway, about attitudes, I'm never going to tell people what to not spend their money on, perhaps it's just how I was raised to think that if you haven't earned it, you've no claim on it unless it was a gift. I have worked these 9 hours and I will be paid for them and that money is MINE. I have no claim on these riches promised by smug advertisements (there's a lotto ticket and that keeps coming up on the escapist videos and I hate it). My opinion, your milage may vary.
Then this whole be about luck, people say "Is that a lucky one?" And it grinds my nerves, no its not lucky it's a piece of pink paper or a card with some wax on it which you have just PAID MONEY for, which might net you a small return but satistally won't. Then they get all pleased with a couple pounds return, ninety percent of the time it goes back on more cards/tickets and....
/rant.
Thoughts?
Then occasionally you get a head scratcher, we are just across the road from the local nightclub, so there are normally a lot of young people in on a Saturday night under various amounts of alcohol. Anyway for some reason it really enhanced the amounts of scratch cards sold, one fellow bought 4 ten pound cards at once, he didn't even seem that drunk, and BTW he did them right there so I know he got nothing for it.
Anyway, about attitudes, I'm never going to tell people what to not spend their money on, perhaps it's just how I was raised to think that if you haven't earned it, you've no claim on it unless it was a gift. I have worked these 9 hours and I will be paid for them and that money is MINE. I have no claim on these riches promised by smug advertisements (there's a lotto ticket and that keeps coming up on the escapist videos and I hate it). My opinion, your milage may vary.
Then this whole be about luck, people say "Is that a lucky one?" And it grinds my nerves, no its not lucky it's a piece of pink paper or a card with some wax on it which you have just PAID MONEY for, which might net you a small return but satistally won't. Then they get all pleased with a couple pounds return, ninety percent of the time it goes back on more cards/tickets and....
/rant.
Thoughts?
