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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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I remember that, laughed myself silly!

Glad to hear she's still going!

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She's doing great considering her age. Unfortunate!y there were no winners in the lottery tickets I gave her this year. She sure had fun with those scratch tickets though!

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Shame about the lottery tickets, but from what you said, she did ok on the scratch-offs.

Since she is getting up there, maybe you could surprise her with some more on her 'half-birthday'.

Although, I'm sure, you'll never top 'the rock'! 🤣🤣

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Lol! You are right, I'll be hard pressed to top "the rock." But I will try to find a way. I have most of a year to find the perfect 100th bday gift.

Yes, I need to dream up some new creative ways to get her more tickets. I'm a bit leery of the lotto tickets, she gets her hopes up and ... statistically 99.9% of the time, nothing. I figured the scratch tickets would help to offset her likely disappointment ... I didn't think she would take to them like a cat with a mouse! Lol! She just couldn't stop herself until she had scratched them all off!

So, definitely more scratch tickets in her near future as a buffer for the typically disappointing lottery tickets. I'll help keep her dream alive. I'd feel terrible if she did win the lottery and that excitement was too much for her and did her in. I guess in that case she would die very happy, knowing she had left her daughter something knowing she won't have to work the rest of her life to just get by, achieving that goal would make the old lady feel her life was finally complete.