A few years ago I had the occassional go on the lottery.
Usually only playing when it was a rollover, assumingly because at the time I thought that the stake of a pound in relation to the odds would only be justified by a jackpot of at least five million pounds.

At this time I had bought a lucky dip which I then stashed in my desk draw with all of the other crap that I've managed to accumulate and then completely forgot about it. About 9 months later, the company directors had decided that we need to move to larger premises and in readiness, we needed to have a tidy up and sort out of our workspace.

I found three unchecked tickets. The lottery has a limit of 180 days from the draw to claim a prize and each of them was well outside of this limit, but curiousity had gotten the better of me and so I went onto the internet to check the results from each draw.

A sinking feeling hit me the moment I checked the numbers of the first ticket against the draw in question. It wasn't the jackpot, but I still had missed out on a fairly substantial amount of money.

It took a while to get over it and I've not played the lottery since, but I still can't help but look back at what happened and curse my own lack of wealth awareness.
( Muns, Fri 30 Nov 2012, 11:32, 2 replies)

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( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Fri 30 Nov 2012, 11:37, closed)

You should shorten your name to just 'Munch' and then the two of you could form a comedy duo.

( 2 Can Chunder Word to your mums, I came to prod bums, Fri 30 Nov 2012, 11:58, closed)