Nothing says Christmas like a lottery ticket
December 20th, 2007 by Bill
From the radio I’m hearing, Jingle Bells. I’m hearing White Christmas. (I think that’s Rosemary Clooney singing.) Oh and there are Carnie and Wendy Wilson singing Hey Santa. And that’s Celine Dion singing Oh Holy Night.
Outside, everything is white. Snow is everywhere and houses are decorated with lights, doors with wreaths.
And there is the radio again. What’s that they’re saying? Oh, great stocking stuffers: lottery tickets. Nothing says Christmas like a lottery ticket, but why stop there? If you’re part of the well-to-do crowd, why not give a VLT? It would look great in the living room.
And at the same time, as we’re running commercials about getting lottery tickets for Christmas, we’re also running public service announcements saying, “Don’t give a lottery ticket to a child! That sends the wrong message.”
Good grief. Maybe the right message would be to actually put some imagination into it and give someone something other than a freaking lottery ticket? When did giving lottery tickets become such a Christmas staple? Probably since it was so easy to do and can be done from the corner store.
You know what’s going to happen now … Someone will give me a lottery ticket for Christmas. And then they’ll probably read this post and there will be fences to mend.
Oh well, it’ll give us something to do in the New Year.
And if the ticket is a winner, we can mend those fences in Aruba.
