When I saw the Country Mart checker at the only working lottery machine, I was prepared to wait. How long could it take? She was probably getting ready to go on shift, or had just clocked out. So I stood back at a reasonable distance, waiting my turn. She glanced back and talked to me a bit.
"Oh, no! You're buying my winner, heh, heh! I love those little crosswords!"
"Yes. They ARE fun to play."
A co-worker went past, and asked her how much she was spending.
"FORTY-FIVE???"
"I can't help it. They were winners."
That's when I noticed that the balance on the machine was $27. And that she kept buying my $3 crosswords. Not a selection as I had assumed. She was hitting the button to get them one at a time. You can get up to three of them at once, but she must know more about that machine's idiosyncrasies than I do. So was doing that to keep it from jamming.
SWEET GUMMI MARY! If she was going to buy $27 more of $3 tickets, that was going to take a while! As I mentioned before, I was trying to get to The Pony's house, and was already behind schedule.
Just then, the machine ran out of $3 crossword tickets! No way was I going to wait for that roving manager lady to put in more tickets.
"Good luck! I'll get mine somewhere else today."
Which I did. Bought two each at the Gas Station Chicken Store, Backroads Casey's, and Orb K. Had three winners, for $16, $10, and $10. I hope that old lady checker also had some winners.
2 comments:
I hope she had some winners too. It's nice to share the luck around.
River,
She apparently had SOME luck, since she had scanned in $45 worth of previous winners! So she probably won something back this time.
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