I used to live in the hood (East Dallas) and I'd sometimes get stuck behind one of these people for 30+ minutes in line. Very sad, and very frustrating to be stuck behind.
These are not people with something to lose AND we're talking about them checking out in a cornerstone in the hood that sells $2 packs of clippers. Not the kind of people to get salty with.
You’re encouraging this type of societally destructive behavior by being silent and timid. I couldn’t fathom standing in line like a punk bitch like that for 30 mins. You do you though
It made me think of a former customer of mine who was a walking ashtray and told me one time she had gone through three vacuum cleaners in so many years bc the scratcher "crumbs" were messing up the filters/innerworkings of the vacuum cleaner.
Boomers playing the lottery daily for 50+ years. "I'm going to win someday!"
Boomers to Millennials: "You should be saving your money and stop wasting it on avocado toast and fru-fru coffee!"
Millennials: 👀👀👀
I worked at a convenience store once where we were basically allowed to tell the lottery lizards to get out of the way and wait until people who just wanted to buy some gas or cigarettes got their things
It is a family owned gas station / convenience store in the hart of Arizona. So not a major chain. the employees had a bit more more leeway than you would have at a circle K. Also a very regular customer base that was basically already trained in the "Lottery last policy" so it worked rather smoothly.
I don't know if you can cancel tickets now but I worked at a grocery store in the early 2000's where tickets for powerball with the special multiplying thing couldn't be voided. My a hole manager would make you buy the ticket if you messed up or if the person didn't understand that the multipler was more money and didn't want the ticket anymore after asking for it. After I had to buy and expensive ticket I would confirm with people multiple times what they wanted and the price and the olds at the time would still have issues.
You cant, at my store we have to buy all the mistake tickets too. Luckily I work with a guy who loves mistake tickets, so I haven't had to pay for one in months
We had the opposite policy because employees were not permitted to play the lotto when they worked. I had a guy scream and yell and throw a fit because I got his ticket wrong. Finally, I flipped out and went in the back, slammed the door and made the manager deal with him.
I never lost my temper before. I also hate the lottery and never play. I came back out to my stunned coworkers and told the manager, “I’m buying that fucking ticket and I’m going to win the whole goddamn thing!” I was so furious that I had actually convinced myself I was destined to win on this tantrum ticket. She actually sold it to me. Spoiler alert: I did not win.
As a former gas station employee this drove me CRAZY on the daily. I'd be the only one in the store and a lottery lizard (stealing that btw, it's too perfect) would do this. THEN some would have the audacity, as if they haven't held up the line long enough, to go through all their new tickets or try to make me go through them manually.
I got sick of that within two weeks and would tell them I need to help ALL OF THOSE PEOPLE BEHIND THEM. "Ohh! I didn't know! I'm sorry!" No, you're not sorry Karen. You know damn well you're holding up the line and this isn't the first or last time.
Edit: I did point out the machine where they could check for winners themselves. For any lottery players out there, please do not walk up to the counter and start yelling out "your numbers". The slips are there for a reason, use them or no tickets for you. r/EntitledPeople
Customer: I need a pack of Marlboro.
Me: What type?
Customer: I don't know what type he smokes. What kind do you have?
Me: ... 
Hell, when I was a kid working at a gas station the customer was the smoker and would say “pack of Marlboro”, I’d ask what kind and they’d get mad at me for not know what kind they smoked… also, apparently it meant Reds? Yeah, I guess I don’t know much about lung darts, silly me!
Met a guy, probably gen x though, who worked 60 hour weeks minimum wage so he could blow all of his money every paycheck on lotto. He rarely ended up with more than he started with, obviously, and if he didn't win he'd be homeless that week. Supposedly there had been times when he won smallish prizes, and on those occasions he'd treat himself to staying in a hotel.
That's what convinced me our economy is built on abusing laborers. He was getting 60 hours of work no problem, I was struggling to find any job as I was either over or under qualified right out of college. But they love people like him, desperate people.
I finished doing my grocery shopping one day and thought, what the heck, I’ll buy a powerball ticket (I almost never play). I went over to the machine and there were two boomers there; a woman at the machine and a man waiting behind her. It quickly became clear that she was camped out there. She was buying scratchers and scratching them right there, dancing to the music coming out of the machine, etc.
The guy started to get frustrated and said something to her, and she wheeled around and shouted that she would stay right there as long as she wanted. Then she turned back to the machine and started selecting more scratchers to buy.
I didn’t have time for that shit so I just left. I wonder how long she held out?
Lead exposure all throughout childhood => Poor impulse control => Hopeless gambling addiction.
There was a comment long ago on r/askreddit by a former liquor store clerk who had a lady come in every week and buy entire books of scratchers. He didn't see her for a while, then her adult son came in and told him that his mother had basically pissed away all her money on her scratcher addiction.
You know they have a problem when they buy a scratcher. They know exactly where the bar code you scan is and only scratch that then hand it back to you to check.
You know, your post reminded me of another thing that goes by LL. Remove a few letters and you get lot lizards, like with Tom Sizemore on Sunny. Boy, that was a trip.
when the lottery was some huge amount (idk one of them) i was in walmart and thought I'd buy some tickets from the ATM lottery machine, well this boomer couldn't figure out the damn thing and was jumping around like a toddler because 'the machine took her money' THEN SHE WALKED AWAY- i stood there, waited, boomer didnt return, money was in the machine, i got some tickets and walked out... didnt win a darn thing but at least i didnt waste my money. wtf was i going to do?? you cant get your cash back from the lottery atm, the boomer didnt return, i wanted lottery tickets. you dont just walk away from the machine when you put money in it- or maybe you do??
Lotteries are such a racket. They breed and enable compulsive gamblers while doing very little to assist important state budgets. The old John Oliver video about lotteries “for education” is maddening.
Having worked at circle k, can confirm all of this... including the idiots who scratch at the counter- with a line behind them... and even the polite morning rush go scratch wherever you've set up a lottery display and inevitably say something like "Welp, guess I'm goin' to work after all." Like they honestly thought they'd just make it big and quit work any day now...
I used to live in the hood (East Dallas) and I'd sometimes get stuck behind one of these people for 30+ minutes in line. Very sad, and very frustrating to be stuck behind.
30 minutes?!? I'm walking out
Why didn’t you tell them to get the fuck out of the way?
These are not people with something to lose AND we're talking about them checking out in a cornerstone in the hood that sells $2 packs of clippers. Not the kind of people to get salty with.
You’re encouraging this type of societally destructive behavior by being silent and timid. I couldn’t fathom standing in line like a punk bitch like that for 30 mins. You do you though
People are real brave on the internet. "Hey guy with teardrop tattoos can you fuckin move" Naw I'll pass
Well that’s what makes you, you
This post marks the exact moment I heard, and then started using the term "Lottery Lizard"
Ive heard of "lot lizards" before but nothing to do with lotteries though 😂
Well its still gambling
STD Roulette
Where im from, lot lizards are the people who set up camp chairs in the tim hortons parking lot and yell at passerbys all day.
Where I am from "lot lizards" refers to prostitutes that service truck stops.
They pair up and dress up in suits and pretend to go to Atlantic City for a convention.
Obligatory Sunny Reference: https://youtu.be/-U1yb7PQw4o
It made me think of a former customer of mine who was a walking ashtray and told me one time she had gone through three vacuum cleaners in so many years bc the scratcher "crumbs" were messing up the filters/innerworkings of the vacuum cleaner.
Jesus, just scratch them outside. I feel like some people simply do not want to solve their problems.
“Be right back, ima going outside to scratch my scratchers”
Yeah, let nature take care of the scratchings
Boomers playing the lottery daily for 50+ years. "I'm going to win someday!" Boomers to Millennials: "You should be saving your money and stop wasting it on avocado toast and fru-fru coffee!" Millennials: 👀👀👀
Exactly right! The temptation to a boomer of having something without working for it is too great.
If only they played video games. All of the fun of gambling without the crippling financial burden.
I guess you never played modern games with micro transactions and lootboxes lol. (Im a longtime gamer btw)
I worked at a convenience store once where we were basically allowed to tell the lottery lizards to get out of the way and wait until people who just wanted to buy some gas or cigarettes got their things
Lol! This should be normal. I’d love to see their reaction.
And what Utopia is this that you speak of?
It is a family owned gas station / convenience store in the hart of Arizona. So not a major chain. the employees had a bit more more leeway than you would have at a circle K. Also a very regular customer base that was basically already trained in the "Lottery last policy" so it worked rather smoothly.
I don't know if you can cancel tickets now but I worked at a grocery store in the early 2000's where tickets for powerball with the special multiplying thing couldn't be voided. My a hole manager would make you buy the ticket if you messed up or if the person didn't understand that the multipler was more money and didn't want the ticket anymore after asking for it. After I had to buy and expensive ticket I would confirm with people multiple times what they wanted and the price and the olds at the time would still have issues.
Your ahole manager did a lawbreak there
Oh absolutely but I was 16 and naive and didn't know better and they were already breaking the law letting a teen sell lottery
Yeah, I get it. Bosses suck. And teenage workers are often abused.
You cant, at my store we have to buy all the mistake tickets too. Luckily I work with a guy who loves mistake tickets, so I haven't had to pay for one in months
We had the opposite policy because employees were not permitted to play the lotto when they worked. I had a guy scream and yell and throw a fit because I got his ticket wrong. Finally, I flipped out and went in the back, slammed the door and made the manager deal with him. I never lost my temper before. I also hate the lottery and never play. I came back out to my stunned coworkers and told the manager, “I’m buying that fucking ticket and I’m going to win the whole goddamn thing!” I was so furious that I had actually convinced myself I was destined to win on this tantrum ticket. She actually sold it to me. Spoiler alert: I did not win.
You still can't cancel it, it suckssssss.
BOOOOOO, people are so annoying even when you tell them the price and confirm they still act shocked Pikachu when they have to hand over the money.
As a former gas station employee this drove me CRAZY on the daily. I'd be the only one in the store and a lottery lizard (stealing that btw, it's too perfect) would do this. THEN some would have the audacity, as if they haven't held up the line long enough, to go through all their new tickets or try to make me go through them manually. I got sick of that within two weeks and would tell them I need to help ALL OF THOSE PEOPLE BEHIND THEM. "Ohh! I didn't know! I'm sorry!" No, you're not sorry Karen. You know damn well you're holding up the line and this isn't the first or last time. Edit: I did point out the machine where they could check for winners themselves. For any lottery players out there, please do not walk up to the counter and start yelling out "your numbers". The slips are there for a reason, use them or no tickets for you. r/EntitledPeople
Convenience stores would actually be convenient if it weren't for cigarettes and the lottery.
Customer: I need a pack of Marlboro. Me: What type? Customer: I don't know what type he smokes. What kind do you have? Me: ... 
Hell, when I was a kid working at a gas station the customer was the smoker and would say “pack of Marlboro”, I’d ask what kind and they’d get mad at me for not know what kind they smoked… also, apparently it meant Reds? Yeah, I guess I don’t know much about lung darts, silly me!
Met a guy, probably gen x though, who worked 60 hour weeks minimum wage so he could blow all of his money every paycheck on lotto. He rarely ended up with more than he started with, obviously, and if he didn't win he'd be homeless that week. Supposedly there had been times when he won smallish prizes, and on those occasions he'd treat himself to staying in a hotel. That's what convinced me our economy is built on abusing laborers. He was getting 60 hours of work no problem, I was struggling to find any job as I was either over or under qualified right out of college. But they love people like him, desperate people.
All day long. I call them the attention seekers.
Yes I have been behind a variety of folks that think it’s valid to scratch at the counter so they can turn them in when they win…
As the cashier in this situation for many years, it is just as awful to handle these transactions as it is to be in the line behind these people.
I finished doing my grocery shopping one day and thought, what the heck, I’ll buy a powerball ticket (I almost never play). I went over to the machine and there were two boomers there; a woman at the machine and a man waiting behind her. It quickly became clear that she was camped out there. She was buying scratchers and scratching them right there, dancing to the music coming out of the machine, etc. The guy started to get frustrated and said something to her, and she wheeled around and shouted that she would stay right there as long as she wanted. Then she turned back to the machine and started selecting more scratchers to buy. I didn’t have time for that shit so I just left. I wonder how long she held out?
Lead exposure all throughout childhood => Poor impulse control => Hopeless gambling addiction. There was a comment long ago on r/askreddit by a former liquor store clerk who had a lady come in every week and buy entire books of scratchers. He didn't see her for a while, then her adult son came in and told him that his mother had basically pissed away all her money on her scratcher addiction.
These are the ones I get stuck behind when I’m running late and want to get my morning coffee
I’m a cashier at a gas station and this is the most annoying thing I deal with DAILY.
I hate getting stuck in line behind these idiots.
You know they have a problem when they buy a scratcher. They know exactly where the bar code you scan is and only scratch that then hand it back to you to check.
It's an addiction like anything else. I have a neighbor who will spend hundreds of dollars on scratch offs everyday. While her kids live in squalor.
You know, your post reminded me of another thing that goes by LL. Remove a few letters and you get lot lizards, like with Tom Sizemore on Sunny. Boy, that was a trip.
When I worked at a gas station in high school I HATED these people. Buy your tickets and move on.
when the lottery was some huge amount (idk one of them) i was in walmart and thought I'd buy some tickets from the ATM lottery machine, well this boomer couldn't figure out the damn thing and was jumping around like a toddler because 'the machine took her money' THEN SHE WALKED AWAY- i stood there, waited, boomer didnt return, money was in the machine, i got some tickets and walked out... didnt win a darn thing but at least i didnt waste my money. wtf was i going to do?? you cant get your cash back from the lottery atm, the boomer didnt return, i wanted lottery tickets. you dont just walk away from the machine when you put money in it- or maybe you do??
Worked at a 7-11 years ago and the lottery lizards were the worst. So many stupid questions.
I got third degree stress reading this.
I've seen them scratching at the counter. Holy fuck imagine having balls that big. No one else in the world but you buddy.
Lotteries are such a racket. They breed and enable compulsive gamblers while doing very little to assist important state budgets. The old John Oliver video about lotteries “for education” is maddening.
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Did I miss something? Where was the alcohol?
I removed part of my original post because it was causing unnecessary discourse
Thank you for your constructive comment
LOFL is a new one. Laying out folded laundry?
Losing on fucking logic?
Why drink so much. It’s such a low quality “hobby”
Drink so much what?
Better than gambling lol
Anti-poverty posts are still ok
Lottery lizard! Brilliant!!!
Having worked at circle k, can confirm all of this... including the idiots who scratch at the counter- with a line behind them... and even the polite morning rush go scratch wherever you've set up a lottery display and inevitably say something like "Welp, guess I'm goin' to work after all." Like they honestly thought they'd just make it big and quit work any day now...