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I promise you, this is definitely not a case of sour grapes. But really, honestly, how can I be happy for someone who has managed to win the lottery FOUR times. Four! Texan Joan Ginther, a 63 year old, has celebrated four different windfalls of over $1 million each since 1993! Her latest win on the $140 million Extreme Payout scratch off game earned her a whopping $10 million, bringing to $20.4 million the total prizes she has won since she started playing. Even more amazingly, two of her wins were on tickets bought in the same store. Now come on, people, is this fair? What about the rest of us who go week after week to the same store, picking the same numbers, hoping to win a grand, never mind a million! There really needs to be a law against someone so lucky!!

 Here’s a lotto joke (or it might be a true story) courtesy of LottoMania:

 At a Christmas party the staff decided to pull a joke on their boss who had a habit of playing serious practical jokes. When he went to the toilet, they went through his wallet and found his Lotto ticket. Then, they wrote down his numbers and called over the waitress to set up a little prank. She came back half an hour later and asked if anyone wanted to know the night’s Lotto numbers, then proceeded to read them out loud before setting the numbers on the table.
The boss looked at the numbers, then casually pulled out his wallet and compared them. He became really silent, put his wallet back in his jacket and sat down again breathing really rapidly, and looking totally blown away.
After a couple of minutes he pulled out his wallet and Lotto ticket again, and checked the numbers, very carefully.
Then, he, stood up on his chair and shouted out to the whole room: “I just want to let you all know something. I’ve been having an affair with my secretary for months. I don’t like any of you, and I have hated working for this company. You can all go to Hell, ‘cos I’ve just won a shit-load of money, and I’m leaving!” Needless to say his job and his marriage didn’t last much longer.

What’s that saying about if you rub shoulders with rich people some of their gold will start to rub off on you? Well that’s how it must have felt for a guy in Tsawwassen, Canada who has worked for over 20 years in gambling industry. I’m sure that Brian Egli must have had his moments of jealousy when he handed over checks to countless lottery-winning millionaires along the way. But his moment of glory came when he learned that he had matched all six winning numbers to earn the massive amount of $4.3 million this week. You can’t blame Egli’s wife Bea for her response when her husband told her that they had won the Big One. All she could mutter scornfully was, “Sure we did, Brian.”

So, Don comes home after a hard day’s work and sees his wife wearing an expensive new fur coat. He blanches and asks her where she got it. “My boss won the lottery and this was my share!” she explains. The next week, she comes home driving a new car, and again she explains that her boss won the lottery. On the third week, she comes home from work wearing a dazzling diamond necklace, with the same explanation. Tired from work, she asks Don to run her a bath but is stunned to see that he has only put in an inch of water in the tub. “Why is there so little water?” she asks. “Well, we don’t want your lottery ticket getting too wet now, do we?” he responds.