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Thursday, 13 Mar 2025
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The gas station cashier deserves hazard pay for this
My buddy worked at a convenience store back in the 90’s and would call them “lotto zombies”
And then they start asking what number the stacks are on
I never knew how bad it was until one day my battery died and I had it towed to some random gas station and had to wait like 2 hours to have it replaced.
The waiting room was tiny, so I ended up going to their convenience store and hanging out….Holy shit it was like being in a sad casino. People were like zombies for the lotto and scratchers, it was genuinely frightening.
DOLLAR STRAIGHT. DOLLAR BOX.
Yeah I’m tryna buy sum shit and it’s always just one cashier so I gotta wait for those mfs to get they shit done and after half an hour I can finally buy my two items
Eastern Europe gas stations sell beer, liquor, hot dogs and snacks and it is even more frustrating to be stuck behind the 5th guy who can’t decide on the hot dog sauce…
Oh it’s aggravating to see someone with a handful of cash buying 1 of every bloody scratcher instead of upping their odds by buying a bunch of just one.
It would speed up the transaction as well.
I worked at a gas station. If you bought lottery tickets, you had to leave the counter to open them so others could buy there shit. If there was a big line up you had to go to the end of the line to get redeem your tickets and buy more.
I got stuck behind a guy that was buying a pile of lottery tickets and a carton smokes. His card kept getting declined. He kept saying he had at least $65 in bank account. Oh and he was with a pregnant woman…
It’s the regulars who drop $200 on scratchers every couple of days, and are OVER THE MOON if one of them wins $15 back. Then they immediately drop another $200 because the $15 was proof they were lucky. Some don’t even scratch the whole card, just the scan code. Some make you pull out the entire roll, and only sell them the ones with codes that end in a certain number.
Working at a gas station turned me off of gambling entirely. Except for KENO guy, the regular who would watch the numbers for a few rounds, quickly fill the bubbles, and run up to the counter claiming that if it timed out it wouldn’t work anymore so I had to move fast so it counted for the next roll. That guy won consistently, he told me he cracked the pattern. 🤷🏻
If you play lottery any time between 8 and 9 in the morning you should be thrown in prison for life.
I do not factor in time for lottery players in my morning routine!
The worst ones for me are the idiots who buy lottery tickets and then scratch them off right there in line and then redeem a winning ticket and buy more and repeat the process…and the clerk just lets them.
I’m a beverage vendor. I could care less, but adult me freaks out how often I hear the bill is $50-$100.
Filling a pickup, a carton of cigarettes, and a half dozen scratch offs is like $120-$150. Its something I never knew about. That’s a lot of money.
They all sound like Big Smoke from San Andreas ” I’ll have a number 9, a number 12, 2 number 6s, a mega millions, whats the powerball up to?” Please fucking kill me.
and they refuse to fill out the slips. they have to shout out their numbers
The worst people on earth.
Vape people. Instead of figuring out what flavor they want beforehand they wait ‘til it’s their turn then sit there with their mouth open staring at the options
I was at a 7/11 and was buying 5-6 items and saw someone with only 1 thing and said they could go ahead. They then pulled out a stack of lotto scratchers and I had the pleasure of waiting 15 minutes as they went through them. Now I no longer let people go in front of me
I was literally just complaining about this to my coworker when I got to work today, because I got stuck behind them when all I was buying was 2 things. Hate them as a customer, but hated them even more as an employee.
I used to work at a gas station overnights. Being overnight meant only having 1 person there, so if someone was in the store, you couldn’t be in the back stocking, and had to watch the counter. So these zombies would buy 1 round of tickets, go scratch them off, be back and buy the next round, repeat for about an hour. Always put me behind, which was even more annoying because everyone always assumed you had nothing to do, but you had so much to do that I never got to actually take more than one 15 minute break on a good night.
Them and coupon people at the grocery store
“I’ll take 3 lines of 6/49 with Encore. Then I’ll take 3 lines of Lotto Max with Encore all on separate tickets. Do you have any of those Cash for Life ones that are double the prize? Okay how much is that? Okay ugh no I’m not getting gas.” – Actual quote of a guy in front of me.
Since we are sharing anecdotes, I got two from last year that are kind of fresh in my memory.
1. I went to a 24/7 corner store near me for a late night snack. I think I bought a fresca and aero bar or smartfood popcorn. The guy in front of me had two packs of ramen, an energy drink and some scratch tickets. The total came to $31. He was pissed at the price…so he asked the cashier to take back one of the ramen packs lmao.
2. I live in a building that has a pharmacy on the first floor. I was in there buying toilet paper at the self check-out and watched a guy pick through a big stack of scratch tickets. I happened to see the total, it was $155. I hoped that maybe it was for a group buy or something…but something told me that it was all for him.
I just don’t get it. Seems like desperate people doing desperate things. It’s awful.
They win like 5 dollars after spending 20 on tickets then immediately spend the 5 they won on more tickets.
It’s extremely sad.
Cigarettes too
Especially since it’s completely pointless. Nothing short of winning the huge national jackpot would be enough to set you free from wage slavery, so scratch cards don’t help at all
Yes and thats why it should be illegal. I dont care about the losers throwing their money away, Just get out of the damn way.
“lottery people” is a fun new slur I’m going to start using
This feels like a good moment to endorse [Gas Station Encounters ](https://youtu.be/uToZkShLEHw?si=-HinNsShDs9H8q_d)
I’ve never felt so seen as I do right now
YES!!
The worst is when they try to scratch them off right there and buy more with the “winnings”
“Can you scan these 13 scratch offs to see they were winners..:. Can I get 3 crosswords, 5 slingos, a $25 scratch, and and the mega million”
and they always want pay in cash … at 0650 in the morning
One of the things that makes me happy to live in Utah.
We must look out for our less fortunate brothers and sisters and try to be patient while they pay their stupid tax
I use the lottery vending machine for thst reason. Only thing it sells are lottery tickets, only people in line to use it are buying lottery tickets and they don’t talk so they don’t waste time trying to have a conversation with it. You can order scratchy tickets, any of the drawing style tickets, quick pick, premade on those paper slips or on your phone and have it scan a QR code. The only thing it won’t let you do is let you pay for it with debit, but then I always use cash so it’s a non-issue for me.
Winner! Gangnant!
If you do the scratchers at the counter you deserve to be kneecapped
*Yeah, lemme get [insane amount of scratch offs and lottery tickets] and 9 mini bottles of fireball.*