What an amazing gift, sounds like a real treat all way around.
You done good, man.
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What an amazing gift, sounds like a real treat all way around.
You done good, man.
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I visited my 99 year old ex-neighbor on her birthday yesterday.
I knew she liked scratch tickets because her daughter would buy her a couple every week and the old lady had confided in me that her big wish was to win the lottery so she would have something to leave to her daughter when she passes.
So I bought her an assorted wad of scratch tickets ($1s, $2s, $3's and $5's) and a few tickets each for the 2 big lotteries. Her children and a couple of grandchildren were there when I arrived.
OMG! The old lady opened her card and saw the lottery tickets. She opened the gift bag, saw all the scratch tickets, got really excited and dove into them! She started scratching tickets but didn't know whether she won or not ... she wasn't taking the time to read/understand the rules of each game ... we had to remind her where not to scratch ... she started handing the scratched tickets to her 40 y/o grandkids to figure out whether she had won anything. After 20 minutes of feverish ticket scratching, I told her she might want to take a little break to rest or end up with her arm in a sling from a sore wrist! Lol! She kept right on scratching. I bet it took her 45 minutes before she was done, A pile of scratch debris on the table, in her lap and on the floor! Lol!
We had a lot of laughs though all of that and she did pretty good, about a 60% return on what I spent on the scratch tickets ... and she won't know lottery ticket results until the next drawings. If she wins anything significant, I'll update this post.
Now I know what I'm getting her for her 100th birthday next year.
I visited my 99 year old ex-neighbor on her birthday yesterday.
I knew she liked scratch tickets because her daughter would buy her a couple every week and the old lady had confided in me that her big wish was to win the lottery so she would have something to leave to her daughter when she passes.
So I bought her an assorted wad of scratch tickets ($1s, $2s, $3's and $5's) and a few tickets each for the 2 big lotteries. Her children and a couple of grandchildren were there when I arrived.
OMG! The old lady opened her card and saw the lottery tickets. She opened the gift bag, saw all the scratch tickets, got really excited and dove into them! She started scratching tickets but didn't know whether she won or not ... she wasn't taking the time to read/understand the rules of each game ... we had to remind her where not to scratch ... she started handing the scratched tickets to her 40 y/o grandkids to figure out whether she had won anything. After 20 minutes of feverish ticket scratching, I told her she might want to take a little break to rest or end up with her arm in a sling from a sore wrist! Lol! She kept right on scratching. I bet it took her 45 minutes before she was done, A pile of scratch debris on the table, in her lap and on the floor! Lol!
We had a lot of laughs though all of that and she did pretty good, about a 60% return on what I spent on the scratch tickets ... and she won't know lottery ticket results until the next drawings. If she wins anything significant, I'll update this post.
Now I know what I'm getting her for her 100th birthday next year.
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