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The lottery people

July 18th, 2006 by Bill

I understand lottery tickets. I understand the hope, however faint, that, “I just might win! What if that happened?”

But geez … do they have to always take forever to buy them? I go to the Mac’s across the street (a kind of Canadian version of 7-11) and all I want to do is quickly buy what I need and get out.

But there’s a line up. Everyone’s waiting for the lottery person, who has small slips of paper coming out everywhere, deciding which tickets to check, which lottos to buy, which numbers might work best.

Can’t they figure some of this stuff out before they reach the cash? Like, before they even leave the house?

Whenever I’m in a store and I see a line up I always think, “Oh no. Lottery person.” Something about the hope of winning seems to drain every ounce of energy out of them. They are the slowest moving people on the planet.

And this from someone who hates people who rush! But really, you can also move too far in the other direction.

Stores really need to have electric cattle prods available on location with little signs above them that read, “For use on lottery people only.” You know, something to keep the lines moving.

9 Responses to “The lottery people”

  1. on 18 Jul 2006 at 2:31 pm1 Karen Little

    I feel your pain… Here (South Africa) we have seperate cues for the Lotto, but unfortunately this queue gets so long that it actually obscures the normal-groceries cue. Also, there’s a seperate little stand where you colour in the dots on your little slip of paper, usually located at the shop’s entrance, so to get into the store you have to fight your way through a herd of interminably deliberating people. Ugh.

  2. on 18 Jul 2006 at 2:41 pm2 Bill

    Lottery people - they’re everywhere!

  3. on 18 Jul 2006 at 9:49 pm3 Spinning Girl

    I just think it’s cute how you Canadians say “line up”. It’s second only to “queue” on my list of Cute Words for a Line.

  4. on 18 Jul 2006 at 10:54 pm4 Debby

    LMAO!!

  5. on 19 Jul 2006 at 1:26 am5 Bill

    Spinning Girl: This is confusing. What do Americans say? Or do you mean you guys just don’t “line up?” Anyway, line up or not, you must have the same problems with lottery people. Geez … some of those U.S. lotteries give away enough to buy freakin’ Hawaii!

  6. on 19 Jul 2006 at 1:27 am6 Bill

    debby: so am I!

  7. on 19 Jul 2006 at 9:27 am7 Spinning Girl

    No, I meant when you say “there was a line up” instead of just “there was a line”.

  8. on 19 Jul 2006 at 2:51 pm8 Bill

    Ah … now I see what you mean. Yes, that is odd.

  9. on 20 Jul 2006 at 11:47 am9 Sizzle

    i like this electric cattle prod ideer.

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