OT--Have to go to work today

[2LeftCleats]

Unfortunately, someone in SC stole the numbers I was going to pick.
Now my family and friends have to go to work.
NPR must continue its fund drives.
The bike industry will suffer.
Life is so unfair.

[Mikej]

If won the lottery, I'd be at work bright and early the next day -that money isn't worth as much unless everybody I cant stand sees me with it everyday!

[peanutgallery]

I already had my life as a billionaire planned

To say I'm disappointed is an understatement:)

[hokoman]

If won the lottery, I'd be at work bright and early the next day -that money isn't worth as much unless everybody I cant stand sees me with it everyday!

Brilliant.

[soulspinner]

I would rather win the 40 mil Friday. After the big to do its under the radar and nobody needs a billion dollars..... YMMV.

[2LeftCleats]

Yeah, but I find $40M kind of limiting.

[MattTuck]

Second chance tonight with powerball. Don't give up so easy.

[Lanternrouge]

I haven't been following the news this morning, so I'm just keeping hope alive that one of the tickets my wife got yesterday was a winner and she's been too busy to check.

[Idris Icabod]

I haven't been following the news this morning, so I'm just keeping hope alive that one of the tickets my wife got yesterday was a winner and she's been too busy to check.

Unless she commuted to South Carolina to buy the ticket, I have some disappointing news for you.

[roguedog]

Hey Hey.. who took my chance away from me?? It was my turn :)

.. sigh.. back to the mines.

[Luwabra]

i would have a blast giving millions to non profits/charities. Providing funds for lives that can't fight for themselves... kids/animals/the earth would be very gratifying for me. I bought a ticket so my wife could quit her job we could retire to BC stand in a river and swing flies. damnit. I had a plan.

[Lanternrouge]

Unless she commuted to South Carolina to buy the ticket, I have some disappointing news for you.

I saw that the winning ticket was not sold here. I will somehow have to soldier on, but I'd be working today regardless.

[fiamme red]

Some practical advice for the winner from the New York Times: How to Win the $1.6 Billion Mega Millions Jackpot Without Ruining Your Life (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/23/upshot/mega-millions-what-do-first-if-you-win.html).

[soulspinner]

Yeah, but I find $40M kind of limiting.

:)

[Tickdoc]

from my favorite economist...Eliot Eisenberg....the Bowtie economist:

Lucky Lottery

Tonight, if the Mega-Millions jackpot is not shared, the winner will enjoy the largest lotto prize in world history at $1.6 billion. Two changes created these huge jackpots; doubling of the price to $2/ticket and reducing the chance of winning from 1 in 258,890,850 to 1 in 302,575,350. This was done because of fear of "jackpot fatigue" from paltry prizes of $100 million. In FY2018, lottery sales totaled $77.7 billion.

[joosttx]

We live in an amazing country

[redir]

If I ever win a Billion dollars here is my solemn promise to all you Paceliners... Moots of your choice for everyone!

Of course I didn't even buy a ticket so there's that...

[d_douglas]

Everytime my wife or I buy a .lottery ticket (maybe once a month) we are entirely convinced we are going to win.

Jokes aside, my colleague at work won $500k earlier this year! Not tons, but took the edge off, that's for sure.

Whoever won that $1.6bn - I truly hope they have plans to gift a large portion of that to others in need. Not to myself or likely to anyone on this forum, but to set up a philanthropic organization dedicated to making the world a better place (my wife is a fundraiser, so Ive been indoctrinated.)