I'm sure you're getting tired of Mrs. HM telling lottery stories. I can't help it. That's all the news I have to share. The last two were upbeat, considering that Farmer H and I were both winners. Today's tale is a groaner. Another near-miss for Mrs. Hillbilly Mom! Technically, it's another near-win. But that sounds too positive for the way I feel.
Considering that Farmer H won $200 on that Black Diamond ticket, I figured that's what I should buy. It's an unusual amount. Most rolls of tickets have a $100 winner on them, and then lesser amounts. So this was something special. I figured maybe more of those would have been distributed around Hillmomba this month. As much as MoLottery claims these winners are random, they show up in clusters each month on the prize map. It only shows wins of $1000 or higher, but there are always clusters around different cities, and it's usually the same ticket.
I went to town Friday with the mission of getting two or three of those Black Diamond tickets for myself. I could afford it, from my recent not-losing streak. My first stop was the Liquor Store, because it's on the right side of the road, and the traffic flow favors this route. I got my Black Diamond and a crossword from a new employee there. He appears to be of Indian (not Native American) heritage, with an accent like Apu from the Kwik-E-Mart on The Simpsons. The regular stoner guy who wears a hoody has not been there my last two times.
Anyhoo... from there I made my left turn by the Casey's, and looped back to the Gas Station Chicken Store. I was cashing in Farmer H's $200 winner, and Fave the cashier said,
"Oh. A guy just came in with one of these that he got over at the Liquor Store. He asked me if I could cash it. I scanned it, and it said SEE MISSOURI LOTTERY. It was a $1000 winner! So I gave it back to him."
"WHAT? I just bought one over there. Just now! I had been planning on it since my husband scratched this one. If only I'd been a few minutes earlier, that would have been mine!"
"Isn't that always how it goes?"
"You're tellin' me! And so soon after missing that $50,000 over at 10Box!"
Anyhoo... I can't get much closer to a big win. Oh, and my Black Diamond from the Liquor Store was a loser. Same as the one I got at the Gas Station Chicken Store.
If only you had gone to the other store first! But maybe that man had bought the ticket yesterday, so where you went first wouldn't matter.
ReplyDeleteRiver,
DeleteNot sure what you mean. I DID go to the Liquor Store first, and then directly to the Gas Station Chicken Store, where Fave told me the guy told her that he had "just bought it" at the Liquor Store. So he had been in the Liquor Store ahead of me, that day, just a few minutes earlier.
Just think, a couple less minutes petting Jack before I left home might have made me $1000 richer!