Nebraska Lottery
Okay, I’m writing this in preparation for a mock intervention. Allow me to explain: my friend Joel is very much into the Nebraska lottery. And by “into” I mean he would gnaw off his right arm and left leg if it would mean he could get out of the house once a day to buy a ticket. He claims that his support for the Nebraska Lottery is for charity, the children, and all those places lottery fund go to. I don’t doubt it, but his friends and his family like playing this kind of joke on him.
In any case, it’s not as if I didn’t break down and buy a couple of ten dollar tickets myself (yes, I know they’re expensive, but my gut told me they were more likely to win – my gut owes me twenty dollars) in the past years. But sometimes I wonder how much of our joke is really a joke. I have to admit that the Nebraska lottery could be a tad addictive, and Joel DOES have an uncle who overdosed back in ‘95. I hear that kind of thing runs in the family. Maybe instead of drugs, Joel gets high on the Nebraska lottery? That really worries me. What if he spends all his money on that? Even though he only buys the one-dollar tickets, hey tends to buy them in bulk.
I’ll have to think of that later.
