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I can count the number of times I have bought a ticket - twice- and both times at my husband's urging due to our ongoing financial distress. That does not excuse my lack of judgment in the slightest. I realize that a penny saved is a penny earned and the $2 wasted on the lottery would have been far more effective in my youngest son's piggy bank. How often as parents do we tell kids,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], "Do as I say, not as I do?" However, since I made the mistake twice and suffered the consequences, I feel like I have a bit more insight about a practice that has become widely accepted as a means of funding our public projects and even schools.
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For my part I think that's a poison pie. The sickness I felt at the loss of the ticket money and the destruction of my little fantasy that we'd win was magnified by the fact that my son,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], 9, was with me when I checked the ticket. You'd have thought I was smuggling drugs the way I sneaked over to the little scanner to see if the ticket was a winner while he was picking out a snack.
However, to a child,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], a sneaking mom is like a flare in the dark. He materialized at my side just as the machine lit up a phrase in blue: "This ticket is not a winner." I instantly realized the massive, compounded error I'd made.
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