When I parked in my rightful handicap space at the Gas Station Chicken Store on Friday, I saw a scratcher on the pavement beside T-Hoe. It was face-down, and looked like a big one. My eyes weren't good enough to see the gray denomination number that's on the back. I was guessing it could have been a $20, $30, or $50. People don't just drop these tickets. They toss them out when they're losers!
Anyhoo... with my back/rumpus in recovery from the shooting pain, I had no intention of bending over to get it. In fact, a man was walking past me from the FREE AIR hose, and I pulled T-Hoe's door closed to let him pass. He stepped right over that ticket.
When I came back out after my purchase, that ticket was still there. So I balanced precariously with my cane, and picked it up. As I expected, it was already scratched. But the bar code had NOT been uncovered. It was a $50 ticket. So I scratched off the barcode, and entered it into my MOLOTTERY app.
As I've said before, I don't often enter my ticket points, because there haven't been any good prizes to buy with them for many years. Now all we can get are obscure gift cards, or a coupon for a ticket. Since I don't have a working printer, and the clerks don't seem to know how to scan it off a phone (from when I've seen other people ask), it's not worth the time for me. The app is time-consuming, and awkward to move around in. I use it to scan and make sure I don't miss a winner, but you have to do it all over again to enter the points.
Anyhoo... I DO scan in points for special drawings, like the one they have monthly for the "big" tickets like the $50s and $30s. I occasionally buy a $30, and The Pony likes the $50s. That's how "we" won $300 in a drawing last year.
I like to think of my act of scavengery as being selfless. I was picking up litter, you know!
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