Thursday, pension day.
I enter store and there were about ten elderly customers wanting to but lottery tickets.
Each person took at least 5 minutes for the transaction. Some longer. Rummaging around in their purses. Checking last weeks tickets.
After 23 minutes I purchase my ticket in less than a minute, having my money ready beforehand.
This is what I have to look forward to in the coming decades?
Perhaps you’ll will win and never have to do the lottery or queue for anything ever again.
I only ever did the lottery with others in work,I only did it because I was afraid that I would be the only one there on Monday morning.
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This was for me one of the most annoying things while waiting in a queue for the cashier - for any purchase. The people who seem astonished that the step after the cashier scans your purchases might just be that you now need to pay. Folk you look at the total, pause, start to open their handbag or pat down all their pockets - payment? purse? wallet? bank cards? - I’m sure I have such things somewhere, just let me find them. Aaargh.
Then I moved to rural France. The above continues. But here there is also the strong possibility that a cheque will be used to pay. And there is the search for the loyalty card … somewhere on their smart phone (yes, scan the loyalty QR code from their smart phone and then pay by cheque). Plus, naturally, the customer knows the cashier so there absolutely must be a bit of a chat - how’s your daughter doing with the new baby, have you seen the new car the Duchamps have got themselves, isn’t the weather terrible…
So I have learnt to be patient.
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What about the folks who pay with their phone nowadays, it can take them three minutes to get the right screen, three minutes is a long time to wait for a person who has potentially less years than the number of fingers on one hand left 
Edit, and these folks ain’t usually gettin on a bit
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Lottery tickets are a tax on people who are bad at maths. A ticket holder only stands a marginally better chance of winning a major prize than someone who doesn’t have a ticket.
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Just look at the prize money and think of how many lottery tickets it has to sell just to break event, let alone to go into profit. that should be a no thank you stop stop anyone buying
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Its been years since I bought a ticket ,seems theres more chance of winning on Street Lottery…
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I think I read that, here in the uk it was a thirteen million to one chance of winning the top prize, they then added more numbers and the chances of winning went up even more…
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That’s correct Primus, they pandered to the folks who would not be content with a £7million payout
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I can never understand those people who win a fortune on the lottery and continue to play it…
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And I can never understand people who win the lottery and then say it won’t change their lives. Excuse me? That is the whole bleedin’ point of winning.
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Yes I agree, for example, if I won millions on the lottery I’d definitely take a day off work…
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