So our state lottery tickets went on sale for the first time today. Big whoop. It's actually the "education" lottery, meaning that a percentage of the proceeds from the tickets will go to the state school system. Again, big whoop. What I want to know is why can't they do that sort of thing with stuff I'm actually interested in buying?
Like those delicious cheese-flavored snack cakes I'm always buying. Why not send a few pennies off that to the schools? I wouldn't have a problem with that. Or my beloved iMac. Supposing $100-200 of the approx. $1600 I paid for it went to the schools. I'd be all about it. But no, they gotta go and try to make me feel guilty because I'm not stupid enough to play impossibly long odds on scratch-off tickets.
Hey, speaking of those cakes, I went to go buy some this morning at an Exxon on the way to work, and the last thing the clerk said to me before I left was, "No lottery?"
WTF!? What I wanted to say was, "Why are you trying to push a gambling addiction on me!? Don't you think I'd have said something if I were interested in the lottery? Do I look like I've got the money to waste?" Instead I politely refused and left.
Everybody's gone crazy over this thing. It's sad.
Like those delicious cheese-flavored snack cakes I'm always buying. Why not send a few pennies off that to the schools? I wouldn't have a problem with that. Or my beloved iMac. Supposing $100-200 of the approx. $1600 I paid for it went to the schools. I'd be all about it. But no, they gotta go and try to make me feel guilty because I'm not stupid enough to play impossibly long odds on scratch-off tickets.
Hey, speaking of those cakes, I went to go buy some this morning at an Exxon on the way to work, and the last thing the clerk said to me before I left was, "No lottery?"
WTF!? What I wanted to say was, "Why are you trying to push a gambling addiction on me!? Don't you think I'd have said something if I were interested in the lottery? Do I look like I've got the money to waste?" Instead I politely refused and left.
Everybody's gone crazy over this thing. It's sad.
but you shouldn't be so quick to be disgruntled, maybe its part of their job to ask. or maybe everyone and their mom has been buying lottery tickets, and they were just making polite conversation with you. eep. i don't know.
ahahah. who am i telling to calm down?? yesterday a credit card co. contacted me about the card that i had recently recieved. the guy that was talking to me kept trying to offer me some $.89 per $100 protection plan. i told him i was not interested in activating such a plan, and that i usually just paid it all at once anyway, so i had no use for such a thing. (he said it would help if i ever got in an accident, and couldn't make my payments). anyway, so i tell him i'm not interested, and the creep keeps asking me why not. i start to get loud and tell him i'm really just not interested. and he starts gettting loud with me!! i was in such shock.. why does it matter why i don't want a protection plan?? its none of their business. deal with it. ahahaha. i hate credit card companies. i think i'll call and cancel it.
i hate it when people try to push stuff on me. its different to politely offer. but when i refuse, i don't want that shit. the end. i don't get why some people think that they can persuade you into buying stuff. people are crazy.