I didn't think any more of my Weirdo encounter at Country Mart on Friday. Until I paid for my bread and onions at 10Box on Saturday. I headed over to the lottery machines. Somebody was at the right machine, so I started at the left. While I was scanning my winners, I noticed something familiar about the guy at the right machine in my peripheral vision.
It was WEIRDO! I didn't get a whiff of him. But he was dressed in the same manner, albeit different clothes. It was his motions that I recognized. Standing in front of the machine, scratching his ticket. AND he was watching what I was doing at my machine. That was a bit off-putting.
Anyhoo... a lady came in and was standing on my side. Waiting. I don't like that. I gathered my tickets out of the tray, and pulled my cart around to wait for Weirdo to be done at the right side machine. It was out of crosswords, but I wanted some $3 tickets there. It crossed my mind to just forget it, and leave. But dang it! I had planned on getting those $3 tickets from that right side machine.
I waited. And waited. Leaning on my cart, pretending to be disinterested. Then Weirdo put a card in the machine. I don't know how that works! I just scan in winning tickets for credit, or put in cash. Anyhoo... Weirdo bought a $10 ticket that has terrible odds! Like 1 in 10. But the attraction is that this ticket can only win $50 or $100. So if you buy enough, or hit it just right, you can get a good return on your money. At least I then knew that Weirdo wasn't just scratching tickets out of the wastebasket while biding time to ask somebody for money or a ticket. He had actually purchased a ticket. Still... no need to block the machine from others while he was scratching.
Weirdo moved over just a little bit. So I moved up and got my $3 tickets. Three of them. I'm really glad I did! The second one was a winner!
That's a $100 winner! If I had left, somebody else would have gotten my rightful prize!
Anyhoo... Weirdo had as much right to be there as anybody else. Even though he was being weird, he WAS buying a ticket. I found it odd that I encountered him two days in a row, in towns about 7 miles apart.
I've been having a heyday with my scratchers. Maybe I'll tell the rest.
It's funny how some people just seem weird with their actions. Watching you? Crazy!
ReplyDeleteI really don't like it when people just block access to anything. Congrats on the $100 win.
Thanks. He was turned to look over at my lottery machine, seeing how much the winners were that I scanned in, and which tickets I bought.
DeleteMaybe he follows your blog and has somehow found out who you are and where you shop so he goes there too in hopes of buying continual winners?
ReplyDeleteOr it is simply coincidence.
Heh, heh! He doesn't seem like the type who would be online. Apparently, he frequents the Country Mart over in Sis-Town, because the cashier wanted the manager to know that he was there again. I've never seen him before in either place, and was surprised he turned up in Backroads at the 10Box.
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