“The Lottery Tickets”

One day while shopping with my daughter, I suddenly remembered some lottery tickets I had in my wallet. I told her that we should check them on the little scanning machine in the store. She was excited when I handed her the thickets. After she scanned the seventh ticket and the scanner said those tickets were not winners, she said, “Mom this is annoying … I don’t like the lottery ... Few people win anything … You do it.”

I said, “Okay.” The first ticket I put in the machine started ringing … winner. “I said, “Nice.” Then I continued and the rest of the tickets rang off one after the other … I got about fifty something dollars and then she said, “Mom I love the lottery. Can I please have that money?”…