Mega Millions...

[Firecrackers Not Included]

So how many of you all worked the Mega Millions shift tonight?
Effing bloody hell...
My store ran out of gasoline and none of us knew it until it was too late
because nobody had time to go into the backroom to hear the alarm!
How many dismayed customers at cutoff time?

[Mr Hero]

How many customers asked for one ticket? The lucky ticket!

[pinky]

Happened at my store. Mega Millions up until 10pm. All of them kept asking "these are the winning numbers right?"

[Firecrackers Not Included]

How many customers seriously looked you in the eye and told you they will reward you for selling them the winning ticket? You, knowing full well even if they do win you will never see them again. Stop lying at me. Just buy your tickets and leave.

SC: "How many times have you heard that before?" (grin)
Me: "Too many (straight face)... NEXT!"

[sms001]

"Yes, I work at a c-store despite my ability to print winning lotto tickets because...?"

I feel for you guys. I got out of it before the super-ridiculous jackpots (seriously, half a BILLION dollars?) but it'd get pretty high every once in a while and really brought out SCs. Kinda like the "amatuer drinking nights" back when I was a bartender. (St. Pats, New Years, Cinco, etc.)

One round of it did bring this gem from a custy's mouth, that I still repeat to this day, on asked why she was buying a ticket by her friend: "It's worth a buck just to daydream."

[Firecrackers Not Included]

One round of it did bring this gem from a custy's mouth, that I still repeat to this day, on asked why she was buying a ticket by her friend: "It's worth a buck just to daydream."

Ha Ha! I had read a news article from when last time PWRBLL was big that went on about a bunch of details about the game and retailers and such but it ended with a great line about something like "And at 10 o'clock, when the drawing finally happens, all those dreams are put to bed." !! I almost died.

[CrystalynRose]

I had that shift too. Had one guy who bought $120 worth of tickets, another who did $80 and a few more high price ones. I can't imagine dropping that much money on something like that. You have better chances at being struck by lightning than winning that dang thing.

[Argabarga]

I had that shift too. Had one guy who bought $120 worth of tickets, another who did $80 and a few more high price ones. I can't imagine dropping that much money on something like that. You have better chances at being struck by lightning than winning that dang thing.

I think if you run the numbers, you have better odds of being struck TWICE on separate occasions than winning the dang thing.

[mikoyan29]

When the jackpot gets like that, I will buy 1 ticket because that's the only one that significantly improves my odds (zero to almost zero).

[Seshat]

I'm with 'it's worth a buck to daydream' woman. That and you, mikoyan. 1 ticket vs 100 tickets makes no statistically significant difference. 1 ticket vs 0 tickets makes a difference in probability: from zero to non-zero.

Admittedly, an infinitesimal non-zero. But still non-zero.

[judecat]

I usually work overnight shift, midnight til 8 am. I rarely if ever sell lottery -- until this week, I worked 2 til 10. OMG. We didn't quiet run out of gas, we managed to get a delivery before that happened, but we did run out of the most popular brands of cigarettes, and fountain soda. There were so many customers lined up for lottery when I got there I almost got back on the bus to go home.
The largest single sale was one guy got $220 worth.

[AccountingDrone]

We tend to get a ticket as the money purportedly goes to fund schools, and a buck every few weeks is innocent fun wisting about what to do with the money if won. We probably spend 150 $US a year. Beats going to the casino [less fattening!]

[Jetfire]

I just took over my office lotto pool. So with Lotto Max up to 50 million + 50 1 million prizes, things are interesting. And it was an interesting feeling to spend 480$ on tickets in one setting (online so I wasn't blocking a cashier. )

I'll probably buy an extra ticket for tomorrow night for myself, just in case I can hit something. I know the odds, but I can afford the money and rarely buy that much to begin with.

[xxscooterxx]

I had to pull the lovely MegaMillions shift the other night. I was so glad when I went into work yesterday and saw the jackpot had went down.

[Primer]

We tend to get a ticket as the money purportedly goes to fund schools,

I remember when Texas voters passed the lottery on the belief that the funds would go to the schools...

Actually, the money goes into the General Fund, out of which a SMALL amount goes to the schools.

Oh well; it's nice to dream.