lottey funnies

[DaDairyDruid]

so with the powerball climbing the store decided to do one of those "everybody kick in a ticket and we split it if we win deals" I decided to go ahead and participate, as well as buy a ticket for myself.

The gal behind the counter and I have a history of Banter. So when I buy my ticket and drink she goes...

her: dont you want to join in the lottery pool?
me: I was planning on it.
er: then why are you buying a ticket for yourself?
me: why would I want to share with you? you're a B*tch?
her: (laughs) but were best friends. seriously though, what would you do if you won all that money?
Me: Whatever the F*ck I want.
her: (laghing quite hard) that is the best answer....

[Victory Sabre]

Me: Whatever the F*ck I want.

I love that answer, and it'd be the same for me.

[Estil]

As embarrassing as this sounds, other than building a nice retro video game and baseball card collection (I'd LOVE to be able to do 50s/60s sets), I wouldn't know what to do with the rest of my lotto winnings if we ever did get that lucky...

[XCashier]

Me, I'd buy a nice house, upgrade the cars, put some away for my son's schooling, give a fair bit to charity and live off the rest for the rest of our lives.

Oh, and lots of trips to places I've never been to but wanted to go.

[ralerin]

Two words: financial advisor. On the double. If I won, I'd refuse to become one of the statistics that almost everyone who won the lottery loses it in five years or less.

[ParkingWitch]

My plan involves acreage a moat and a lot of practice at saying "NO".

[Teskeria]

I splurged a whole two bucks. got my plans made. 1st financial advisor. because I want it to last beyond the 20 they dole it out thru. a house. books. a car. books. regular visits to the grands. books. a one time trip to see the places I want to see (ireland, greece, australia). books. a dog. books, charities already planned. oh yeah, did I mention books.

[fireheart]

I'd probably split it with my family, my boyfriends family and then put the rest aside for my boyfriend and I. I'd pay off my uni debts and do the usual house, car, save the rest.

[Kagato]

Nearly 3 years ago now, I came VERY close to winning the lottery in New Zealand, I was LITERALLY one number off.

I remember when I was checking my ticket I had the first 5 numbers, I got to the 6th number which was 39 on my ticket... the number that had come out of the machine was 40.

As a result, that ONE number difference cost me a million dollars. I still got just under $600 for my troubles, but it stung to know I had come so close, yet so far...

[pzychobitch]

Hahaha, I would most certainly do whatever I wanted if I won too!

[Flying Grype]

What would I do with it, aside from "whatever the fuck I want"...

Financial advisor is good. BUT I already have a wildly conservative but still genius idea. Let's say I won fifty million, which is on the small side for Powerball. One percent of fifty million is five hundred thousand. One percent is also a nice interest rate on some kinds of savings account. So I'd put it all in savings and live on half a million dollars a year in interest.

[BrenDAnn]

The guy who one the big jackpot out in VA I think it was alreayd owes money. $29,000 in child support, actually. Good thing he'll be collecting over $150 million. As for me, I'd make sure my brother, sister, dad, nieces and nephews were set for life, give a fair bit to charity, and then just...live on it, I guess. All of that after hiring a financial advisor, of course.

[smileyeagle1021]

First thing I'd do is quit my crappy service job... "why aren't you working right now" is a very easy question to answer in an interview when you can say "I honestly don't have to work, but I want to work, but I want it to be doing something that I actually want to do, not just what I have to do to survive."
I probably wouldn't move, I might replace my partner's car (it's still a very good car, has 90k miles on it though, so while it has many many miles left on it, it wouldn't be overly premature to replace it), I'd definitely do investments, and honestly beyond that, I haven't thought of it... because I know my odds.

[blas]

On my old shift, nearly everyone used to pitch in in the hopes they'd all win the big money.

And damned be your soul if you didn't add yours in and "at least try!"

Sorry, I'll have my 16 year old body back and be proposed to before I win even a million dollars. So no. Those two dollars are better off, for me, spent on stuff that I know I can have and can have now. Like snacks at break or a smoothie before/after work, a new lipgloss or fun eyeshadow to play with.

Sorry to be Debbie Downer, but I always thought those women were so annoying, disrupting the work areas to go around and collect money and check off names (and lecturing those who don't play), yet I was always the one getting questioned as to why I went to get a drink or go to the bathroom so much.