March 30, 2011 · 7:39 am

Luckless bastard

Back when I shared law offices with Jeremy Kaye and Phil Russell, I bought the occasional Lottery ticket when  the pool raised to an excitable  level among the secretaries. Not that I thought I’d win – it’s a fools’ game, but I didn’t want to be seen as some grumpy statistician, so I just shut up and tossed in a buck. This guy didn’t. and lost out, big. On Monday, he was the only of his seven-team IT group to show up for work – everyone else could, and did, quit.

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  1. Fred2
    March 30, 2011 at 9:06 am

    Ya, I always particpated too.

    Cheap fun, and besides, who wants to be last SOB left in the office with all the phones ringing?

  2. stump
    March 30, 2011 at 3:18 pm

    I’ve always wondered why the proles and underclass get excited when the jackpot hits, say, $250 million, when their lives would be changed just as much by winning a measly $75 million or so.