Winning the Lottery

Apr 17th, 2009

Hello my loves, Happy Friday!

This week I met up with Steve for a drink. This in itself is not unusual. We sat in the pub garden (which again is not particularly unusual thanks to the smoking ban) but it was nice to able to sit out and not freeze to death.

Whilst discussing the usual nonsense the ugly, ugly subject of money came up. Everyone’s feeling the pinch, right? Well, clearly Steve and I are no different.

At some point in the conversation I got bored of listening to my own voice (yes it does happen, if only very rarely), and said something like ‘Oh it’ll all be fine once I win the lottery’.

The thing is, I don’t play the lottery.

I’ve never bought a lottery ticket.

I’ve been in office sweepstakes and stuff (although mainly because if you don’t go into the office lottery sweepstake people give you strange looks and whisper nasty things about you behind your back) but I’ve never purchased my own ticket.

Which is going to make it quite difficult to win the lottery. You’ve got to be in it, to win it… Or so they say.

But the thing is, whilst the idea of winning the lottery sounds great, there’s something inside me (perhaps it’s called common sense) that knows it’s a hideous waste of money, and I just can’t bring myself to buy a ticket.

I read somewhere (and I have no idea whether or not it’s true, but I want it to be) that you only marginally increase your chances of winning the lottery by buying a ticket.

Chances are, you are almost as likely to find a winning lottery ticket which someone else has mistakenly disguarded, as purchase the winning ticket yourself.

So I’m crossing everything, including my eyes and here’s hoping that I stumble across someone else’s mistakenly disguarded winning lottery ticket soon.