Do you ever buy lottery tickets?
There has been a story recently in the news about someone who has won the lottery from Bradford in West Yorkshire to the tune of a cool ten million quid – but who hasn’t, at the time of writing anyway, come forward to claim his or her prize.
Now I don’t know about you, but when I read stories like this, it kind of makes my blood run cold as I think about how I’d feel if it was me in that position and I’d lost the lottery ticket. I don’t think I could cope with the knowledge.
Of course, this is extremely rare and let’s hope the lucky winner comes to his or her senses pretty soon, checks the ticket and claims the big prize.
But these types of stories crop up from time to time and they always make me wonder why anyone in their right mind bothers to buy the old-fashioned physical lottery ticket after queuing up at the newsagents, post office or supermarket etc.
After all, there’s really no point buying your lottery tickets like that these days – when anyone who is online (which is pretty much all of us these days) can play the UK lotto online at no extra cost.
I suppose the answer is that many people simply buy their lottery tickets on a whim for the extra £2 as it now is, whilst other people don’t use the Internet a great deal or maybe don’t even have online access. But I suspect there are still many other people out there who simply don’t realise how easy this all is these days.
The simple truth is that there’s no real point in any of us queuing up to buy lottery tickets anymore – but that doesn’t stop millions of people doing just that every week!