Of All the Luck

We bought a Powerball or Megabucks or something like that while we were on vacation, and we still haven’t checked yet to see if we won. To go by past experience, there’s a strong possibility that my husband will bring the ticket to me after it expires and ask me to look up the numbers to see what we would have won. His theory is that we’re winners until proven otherwise, so he’s disinclined to look up the numbers, and sometimes he takes it just a little too far. I don’t think we’ve lost any money this way (except by having purchased the tickets to begin with, of course), because the odds of winning anything are so low. But, having publicly stated that, we absolutely need to check this particular ticket before expires, just to thwart Murphy’s Law.

Update: I actually wrote the above paragraph a while ago, but neglected to publish it. I only remembered it when I spotted a pile of old Powerball tickets among my husband’s things. I checked the 2021 tickets, and the one from VT was a winner (hooray!), though only for $4 and only redeemable in VT, of course. There were, as predicted, several expired tickets. My husband thinks I should look the numbers up, but I’m hesitant, because I don’t want to even think about how I’d feel if there were a big winner among the expired tickets. Lucky for me, the Powerball website is currently down, and since that’s the most reliable site, I can postpone looking the numbers up for now.

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One Response to Of All the Luck

  1. sprite says:

    You looked it up, so you can tell him that you checked the numbers and you don’t have to feel bad. Honestly, it’s a win-win situation.

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