Another Near Miss For Val

You may recall that I've been in a scratcher slump. I hesitate to say "losing streak," because I was still winning. Some. Like $3 here, and $6 there, and sometimes $10. Just not the amounts I'm used to winning. I had to dip into my casino bankroll! Surely you wouldn't suggest I quit playing the scratchers, just because of not-winning!

Anyhoo... last week I had a big turn-around in scratcher luck. [Earmuffs, Even Steven! Cover your ears. Add a blindfold while you're at it. This is not for your eyes.] I think it started on Sunday. Since then, I've only had one day of less-than. The other days, I was hitting a big winner every day. Big for me. A $40 winner, or $50, or $60, and two days, I even had a $100 winner. In fact, I paid back my casino bankroll with more than I had taken out. So there's that. 

Yep. Ol' Val was riding high on the lottery hog, which was strapped atop her high horse. She beamed down with pity at those poor losers who were throwing their good money after nothing. 

Welp! That pride preceded a major head-over-heels tumble for gloating Val...

A $50,000 scratcher ticket was sold at 10Box! I read the news a few days ago. It was a $10 Christmas ticket that I have bought there. Not often. They are hard to scratch. Kind of gummy. More like scrapers than scratchers. So after the initial couple of buys to see what they were like, I gave up on them. Shunned them, actually. And now this.

I hope the winner is thrilled. Who wouldn't be??? I congratulate her, though it is through gritted teeth and gnarled fingers.

Do you understand the gravity of this situation? No more big winners in Backroads for a while! The last big winner in Backroads was a year or two ago. I think it was $100,000. The top prize on a $5 scratcher that Val bought regularly, sold at the Backroads Casey's, which Val frequents a couple times a week. Just like 10Box.

A major prize, virtually ripped from my grasping hands! Oh, well. I'll still keep playing. But you knew that...