Lotto Numbers come up: Didn't buy ticket.

Kettleson · 05-08-2015 07:51PM #1

OK, so your usual weekly lotto numbers come up but for just that one week, you didn't buy a ticket.

How do you mentally deal with the situation? Or what action would you take to cope with your misfortune?

fancy pigeon · 05-08-2015 07:52PM

Blame someone else

Menas · 05-08-2015 07:53PM

Dont have numbers...just play the quick pick. Never give disappointment a chance to get a foothold!

One More Toy · 05-08-2015 07:54PM

I would in all seriousness probably not be able to live with myself

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 05-08-2015 07:56PM

I'd certainly not check the winning numbers in the first place.

Joeseph Balls · 05-08-2015 07:57PM

I think this happened to at least one family member of most people I know...

Menas · 05-08-2015 07:57PM

Buddy of mine calls the Lotto an Idiot tax.
Well, my Lotto plus ticket won me €3 a few weeks ago. Now who is the Idiot?!

Jotunheim · 05-08-2015 07:58PM

Non-stories are bad enough, but hypothetical non-stories? Do you want to know how I might feel about other non-existent issues that never happened? I'm outraged I could never find my adoptive parents. The fact that I was not adopted and grew up in a loving family is neither here nor there.

LizT · 05-08-2015 07:58PM

You can check your numbers online to see if you would have ever won. When my mam checked, the most she could have won was around 200 a couple of years ago.

Guaranteed the numbers will come up some weekend when she forgets to do it though.

LizT · 05-08-2015 08:03PM

Do you know what's fun though? Going on the lotto website and putting in the winning numbers for the last draw so it tells you you've just won millions.

It's nice to dream.

Kettleson · 05-08-2015 08:06PM

Jotunheim wrote: »

Non-stories are bad enough, but hypothetical non-stories? Do you want to know how I might feel about other non-existent issues that never happened? I'm outraged I could never find my adoptive parents. The fact that I was not adopted and grew up in a loving family is neither here nor there.

I feel your pain right now. ouch!

SoulTrader · 05-08-2015 08:06PM

LizT wrote: »

Do you know what's fun though? Going on the lotto website and putting in the winning numbers for the last draw so it tells you you've just won millions.

It's nice to dream.

Hey, it's nice to have some real hobbies too!

super_furry · 05-08-2015 08:06PM

That's why I couldn't have weekly numbers, I'd feel obldiged to do it every draw just in case. When I do the lotto its always a quick pick.

donegaLroad · 05-08-2015 08:12PM

2 members of a local lotto syndicate were going on holidays a few years ago, so they did the lotto before they left, in case the other 2 members forgot to do the lotto while they were away.

As it happened the other 2 members didn't know the first 2 guys had done the lotto in advance, so they also did their usual numbers. Both tickets won the lotto plus draw, they won 250,000 twice.

Jotunheim · 05-08-2015 08:43PM

donegaLroad wrote: »

2 members of a local lotto syndicate were going on holidays a few years ago, so they did the lotto before they left, in case the other 2 members forgot to do the lotto while they were away.

As it happened the other 2 members didn't know the first 2 guys had done the lotto in advance, so they also did their usual numbers. Both tickets won the lotto plus draw, they won 250,000 twice.

Can anybody else get that smell?

Kettleson · 05-08-2015 08:44PM

One More Toy wrote: »

I would in all seriousness probably not be able to live with myself

Nor with those you had promised to share the cabbage with.

ToddyDoody · 05-08-2015 08:45PM

Kettleson wrote: »

OK, so your usual weekly lotto numbers come up but for just that one week, you didn't buy a ticket.

How do you mentally deal with the situation? Or what action would you take to cope with your misfortune?

You big feckin eejit, if that's any help.

Two Sheds · 05-08-2015 08:45PM

LizT wrote: »

Do you know what's fun though? Going on the lotto website and putting in the winning numbers for the last draw so it tells you you've just won millions.

It's nice to dream.

Or buying a ticket just after the draw and using the winning numbers - then going to the pub to show the lads.

05-08-2015 08:51PM

I've never but money on the lottery in my life. I've only bet on a horse once, and that was as a child.

It's such an obvious waste of money, you'd wonder why it was ever made legal. The whole enterprise of betting has no place in a sensible society, but then I support horseracing, and have to accept the role of gambling in the sport.

donegaLroad · 05-08-2015 08:53PM

Jotunheim wrote: »

Can anybody else get that smell?

here you go Jotunheim, especially for you..

http://oceanfm.ie/donegal-family-strikes-lotto-gold-twice/

michellie · 05-08-2015 08:55PM

My mam and her sisters still do my grandads lotto numbers every week since he died 9 years ago, just in case

Kettleson · 05-08-2015 08:56PM

donegaLroad wrote: »

here you go Jotunheim, especially for you..

http://oceanfm.ie/donegal-family-strikes-lotto-gold-twice/

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..and if you kept to your lucky Israeli lotto numbers you would be smiling twice...gotta be a fix surely?

http://www.haaretz.com/beta/israeli-lottery-draws-same-winning-numbers-twice-in-one-month-1.319671

Jotunheim · 05-08-2015 08:59PM

donegaLroad wrote: »

here you go Jotunheim, especially for you..

http://oceanfm.ie/donegal-family-strikes-lotto-gold-twice/

So a few people speculated it might be the case based on guesswork. Still no story.

donegaLroad · 05-08-2015 09:00PM

Kettleson wrote: »

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..and if you kept to your lucky Israeli lotto numbers you would be smiling twice...gotta be a fix surely?

http://www.haaretz.com/beta/israeli-lottery-draws-same-winning-numbers-twice-in-one-month-1.319671

friggin hell, what are the odds?!

donegaLroad · 05-08-2015 09:01PM

Jotunheim wrote: »

So a few people speculated it might be the case based on guesswork. Still no story.

it was the case because I know the family.

Thargor · 05-08-2015 09:10PM

Why do people buy lottery tickets every week instead of just buying a prize bond or 2? You'll build up an emergency fund, you'll never lose a cent, you'll be entered in one draw a week, 2 next week, 52 by the end of the year etc etc, its just mind boggling, you can set up a direct debit if you're worried about the hassle. The Lotto is just pissing money up the wall.

Jotunheim · 05-08-2015 09:19PM

donegaLroad wrote: »

it was the case because I know the family.

Well if someone in the internet says so, then it must be true.

Dirty Dingus McGee · 05-08-2015 09:51PM

I get annoyed when I play the lotto and the person doing it for me doesn't listen and either fails to do it for 2 draws or fails to play lotto plus.I can't relax until I have played for both draws with the same numbers as if it did happen that the numbers came up for the second of the weeks draws and I didn't have a ticket for that draw I don't know how I could deal with it.

donegaLroad · 05-08-2015 09:55PM

Jotunheim wrote: »

Well if someone in the internet says so, then it must be true.

here, you were the one accusing me of spinning yarns, and I proved you wrong. Case closed. No hard feelings.

donegaLroad · 05-08-2015 09:58PM

Kettleson wrote: »

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..and if you kept to your lucky Israeli lotto numbers you would be smiling twice...gotta be a fix surely?

http://www.haaretz.com/beta/israeli-lottery-draws-same-winning-numbers-twice-in-one-month-1.319671

and while we're on the subject of unusual lotto coincidences..

http://www.snopes.com/rumors/lottery.asp

Sam Kade · 05-08-2015 10:03PM

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

I've never but money on the lottery in my life. I've only bet on a horse once, and that was as a child.

It's such an obvious waste of money, you'd wonder why it was ever made legal. The whole enterprise of betting has no place in a sensible society, but then I support horseracing, and have to accept the role of gambling in the sport.

Plenty things are a waste of money, are you saving up to leave millions to you relatives?

Lotto Numbers come up: Didn't buy ticket.

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