Thursday, August 9, 2012

Just Another Day At The Beach

Yesterday we had a family celebration at the beach. 8 large pizzas and  ice cream cake to sing happy birthday to my husband, my son and my husbands brother. Fun fun. My husbands sister bought each of the birthday boys an instant lottery ticket. I got annoyed when they asked me how they knew if they won...I told them it is like every lottery ticket ever printed, 3 of a kind wins. They rubbed off the silver and got 3 pairs of doubles...no winners, and threw the tickets in the empty pizza box. As our aunt was cleaning up  she decided to double check the tickets, and said, "Hey! Look! You won! $500! and it's doubled so it's $1000!" ( we have this crazy history of winning...a week long paid vacation to Williamsburg for 10, and a brand new Prius, so this was not completely unbelievable). She explained what we missed... get 3 like symbols OR 2 like symbols with 2 $$ signs and you win and the cash doubles. Everyone there looked at the lottery ticket. There were 2 $$ 500 matches. When she said it that way it  seemed reasonable to assume he won. This will go down as best 19 year old birthday present in the family history, and everyone was excited, especially the college son! We decided to go to the supermarket  where she bought it to get the money. When we got there customer service was closed. We asked the lone cashier to please page the manager. The manager crawls out from behind the door, looks at us and said, "yeah?"  We said we want to see if this lottery ticket is a winner.  He looks at us and says, "Well look at it."  We said we did look at it and we think it is a winner. He said let me see...he looks and says it is not 3 of a kind.  We explain the reason with the 2 $$ signs and he says, yeah, might be a winner, the Sunoco is open on the next block, they will be able to tell you.  So we get back in the car and go to the Sunoco station. The cashier there has a machine where he scans the ticket. He scanned the ticket and says, "Not a winner."  We thought he said "Winner." We said, "What do we do now?'  he said, "I don't know, buy another lottery ticket."
...it was fun while it lasted!

71 comments:

  1. Bummer. My son is lucky like your family. He's had 2, count 'em, 2 winning $5000 tickets. And he only buys 1 each paycheck. Lucky!

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  2. Seems really weird that it is not very clear what is a winner and what's not. Why would anyone buy the tickets if you can't tell if you have won?
    Sorry that you didn't win anyway - sounds like you do pretty well in contests generally!

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  3. What a funny story, I hope you kept your ticket to get another opinion? My sister always has luck on winning stuff, me on the other hand, thats a whole other story.

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  4. Oh my! I am still at we won a vacation for 10 and a Prius.... Good Luck on your next lottery ticket! A belated Happy Birthday to all. Bonnie

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  5. Oh well, easy come, not so easy go. lol

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  6. Aw, too bad. Cute story, though! :)

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  7. Awww -- what a letdown. My brother's the winning one in our family -- a giant tv, trip to Samoa, etc. etc.

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  8. Oh bummer that you didn't win! But sounds like you guys have definitely won some other awesome things!

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  9. Aww what a bummer..loved the post.. and your newest follower from Mommy's Mingle

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  10. I don't buy many lottery tickets so now I'm wondering - have I thrown money away because this winner type is so easily overlooked?

    In any event, the day was a winner. Good family fun was had and a great story came out of it.

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  11. I am glad you had fun with it. The most I have won is $10!
    sandie

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  12. OH shoot, that would have been great to be a winner. I have no luck at lotto at all ever. I do try every now and then when the amount gets really high.

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  13. Lol!! Well that sure was fun while it lasted. :)

    Happy Birthday to the members of your family that are celebrating!! August babies, so much fun!

    Blessings,
    <><

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  14. oh my....like a roller coaster...well it was fun while the thought lasted...smiles....i have only ever bought like 5 tickets...i found one that won a dollar on the roadside once...

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  15. Bummer! I bought some while in CA on vacation in March and we THOUGHT I won $500... turned out to be $300... but it was better than nothing! ;)

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  16. This must have been a disappointment. You would have been the biggest winner I've known. That doesn't sound right--I still think you're a winner!

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  17. That was pretty funny. I can picture you all standing there wondering what the next step was. Oh did you buy another ticket??

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  18. Awww. Never had a lottery ticket. Haven't won other things either. Maybe I'm unlucky. ha!

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  19. Well, darn! How disappointing. The most I've ever won was $2, so I would have about peed my pants thinking I won $500!

    Happy birthday to all the family that's celebrating this week!

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  20. Thanks for stopping by my blog! I'm looking forward to following yours!
    ICU nurse, huh? I don't know that I could ever go that route!

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  21. Awww- for a moment, though, great excitement!

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  22. Ahhhh so close! I'm so unlucky, I don't even spend the buck anymore, one of my co-workers is always winning though. Maybe he should buy my ticket :)

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  23. Annmarie, Heck we never win anything and when I retired we gave up buying the weekly tickets as a waste of money. We buy one now and then when the $$$jackpot gets really big. You never know... My wife's sister and brother in law won $100,000 on a scratch off in Missouri! Take Care, Big Daddy Dave

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  24. Shoot! That's like getting your birthday present revoked...

    ;)

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  25. we never win but have fun trying every now and agin

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  26. oh gosh...that sounds like my luck. I just bought a mega thing yesterday...only one ticket, in some very small town, with the change from my car ashtray. If I win, gifts for all my blog friends!

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  27. It sounded good. Too bad it wasn't a winner.
    That manager sure was friendly and helpful. Not!

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  28. Well, even if you didn't win , you had a lot of fun.
    I sometimes wonder how many people actually miss finding out if they are a winner.

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  29. Bummer! Well, at least you had a lot of fun at the B-day party. Better luck next time.

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  30. Aw! Sure wish you had won the cash. But, it sure did make for an interesting and entertaining story.
    Blessings!

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  31. Well, that was alot of excitement! My goodness! At least you all had a great time! :)

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  32. That birthday will definitely be remembered! haha

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  33. HAHAHAHAAHAAA.

    I'm still laughing!

    That was a great story and I loved that the punch line was right at the end!

    (oh the hopes of winning a grand!)

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  34. Oh man!! I was hoping you were a winner!! I can't believe you won a vacation and a car!! Wow! I never won anything... maybe my time is coming! LOL
    Sounds like fun at the beach either way though!

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  35. You won a Prius and a vacation for 10??? Holy cow!!!

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  36. Oh... Happy Birthday to the birthday people!

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  37. ohh that sucks , but a cute story haha!

    I follow you now!

    http://mindy13579.blogspot.com

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  38. Oh dear, better luck with the next ticket. But a holiday for 10? That's fantastic! Happy Birthday to the birthday boys

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  39. Funny story. I would get the second opinion.

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  40. Well, if it is that hard to figure out if it is a winner, they need to make some changes! Too bad - that would have been nice!

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  41. Oh my gosh I so went on that roller coaster ride with you all just now-- and was so bummed when the ride ended-- although, how stinkin' cool is winning a Prius and a vacation and...

    Stopping by to say "hi" and thanks a billion bunches for linking up with us yesterday. I so love the collection of beautiful bloggers we are amassing and so love that you are in the mix.

    Happy Everyday,
    Nicole
    localsugarhawaii.com

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  42. Well, it got your heart going, if only for a little while!

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  43. But 8 pizzas, ice cream and beach time with friends and family PLUS a really wild adventure make for a most interesting birthday, memory AND blog post!

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  44. I'll second the thought somebody else already had - I hope you kept the ticket and got a second opinion!

    Some gas stations here recently got in trouble because employees were scanning such tickets, saying they were non-winning tickets, and then - once the customers had left the store - retrieved the tickets from the garbage to claim the prize monies for themselves.

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  45. Oh no, what a bummer! I had something like that happen. I was scratching a ticket wrong and kept telling my husband each time we were in the next higher category, and next. We were so, so excited! lol Then I realized I did it wrong. :(

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  46. That is too bad that it wasn't a winner. Better luck next time.

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  47. sounds like a nice family gathering. ticket is a bummer but importantly, all of you had fun ! i've never bought a single ticket in my life, maybe i could try.

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  48. Oh dear! It was a fun and definitely memorable evening though!!
    xoxo,
    - Irina

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  49. Fun people like you guys sure had lots of fun. Happy Weekend to you, Annmarie.

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  50. Awh the adrenalin of it. It's even fun for me to think you won...even though you did not..nice ride.

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  51. Family get-togethers are wonderful! This could've been more fun than actually winning the lottery!

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  52. Cute story; rather sounds like my luck!! It's always fun to try though, and it sounds like a wonderful party anyway and time shared with family. :)

    Blessings and hugs,
    Denise

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  53. I love the ups and downs of this story, you got me hooked till the end. Maybe it's just as well that your kids realised that you can get very disappointed with gambling ? XX

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  54. So what you're saying is that we need to contact you to go in on group purchases of large jackpots? I love it. Can I be added to your list? :)

    We're also having a See Beautiful blog hop today if you're interested. We're seeing lots of beautiful (just to dangle the carrot a bit):

    http://seeabeautifulworld.blogspot.com/2012/08/pay-it-forward-freeze-for-kindness-and.html

    Happy seeing beautiful!

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  55. Guess it was fun while it last ;)..

    Am kinda pxxx off with the manager's attitude. its very bad. anyway, happy belated birthday to the boys.

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  56. My heart just broke a little for you...I was really hoping you won! Happy birthday to all of the boys of the day! Ice cream cake, and izza sounds yummo!!! Have a great weekend!

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  57. It sounded like you won to me! Sorry to hear that you didn't- but it does sound like an adventure while it lasted. :)

    ~Jess

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  58. Sadly, that's the way the mop flops sometimes. I hope the transient excitement doesn't trigger a gambling habit!

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  59. That made me giggle but as you are lucky anyway I'm sure there will be real winning tickets heading your way!

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  60. Are you serious! That sounds like a winner to me. You should call somebody. lOl that would be a fun birthday for a 19-year-old.

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  61. I was given a lottery ticket as a gift/thank-you and it was worth nothing. I decided that a lottery ticket is a pretty lame gift. But it's cool that you all got some excitement from it!

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  62. Oh,... i cannot imagine the rush and excitement even if at the end you didn't win.
    I guess you won the thrill and a good story.

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  63. Happy birthday to the celebrants. what a ride that was, even though this scratch ticket fan is a little disappointed with the ending.

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