You know you've been playing lotto a while when...

Reply #70

Coin Toss — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 06:57:17 GMT

When you see a string of five or six numbers, consider if any are over the matrix max, put them in low to high order in your head, and can visualize how the pattern they would make on a playslip for a Pick 5, Pick 6, or 5 + 1 game.

Reply #69

megamillionaire — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 05:06:46 GMT

The lotto clerk has your tickets ready for you before you get to the counter.

Reply #68

sully16 — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 02:24:42 GMT

I have my special folders , pads of paper and highliters, i wonder if i can write this off as a work at home expense.

Reply #67

Coin Toss — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 22:40:36 GMT

When somebody asks you your favorite book of the Bible - in church no less - and you say, C'mon, the Book of Numbers

Reply #66

tweak — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 03:30:25 GMT

haha i say that as a joke at the deli i play at

lemme get a bacon egg and cheese straight n' box

i really cant contribute anything, you guys said it all

my plastic envelope says big game (its me grandfathers)

i call in my numbers to the store

people on the lottery line ask me whats the number

i know who's won what on my block

heres some:

you play 5 minutes before the lottery closes because thats when you win

you dont touch john doe's crossword tickets when hes... [ More ]

Reply #65

lottocalgal — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 20:33:45 GMT

Uh oh Dollar,

This one kinda hurts cause I actually can do that. Not only for my Fantasy five numbers but my Super Lotto Plus too.

Reply #64

Ms. Pat — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 05:41:21 GMT

When the clerk calls greets you with the number you play everyday instead of your name.

When you can remember what number fell on a ctertain day 3, 4 or 5 years ago

Reply #63

STORM — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 05:05:22 GMT

When I went to the gas station an asked for 10 dollars str8 and str8 bx on pump 5, the guy was like whaaaaa , his eyes was WIDE Open, so confused and Everybody was rolling laughing so hard. It was so sad cuz I was so confidant I told him give me 10 on pump 5, then I thought about it, those are moments when I am like OMG girl u need to get those numbers out yo head, LOL

Reply #62

marcie — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 14:56:10 GMT

As long as you get something! LOL

Reply #61

tiggs95 — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 13:48:32 GMT

This is not a joke..I went to the OTB yesterday and asked for a trifecta and said st/bx such ans such number..

Reply #60

rdgrnr — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 13:36:13 GMT

When the waitress asks you how you want your eggs and you say: straight/box.

Reply #59

savagegoose — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 08:58:43 GMT

when you remeberm the earlist odds for lotto you played was a 3 from 12 game. and the prize was a cow

Reply #58

tiggs95 — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:42:18 GMT

When your pockets bank account and Christmas Club is empty..

Reply #57

vistaguy — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 23:12:47 GMT

when the store clerk has your 5 quick picks ready and waiting for you when you walk up to the counter with your diet pepsi.

Reply #56

Coin Toss — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 06:11:04 GMT

When you've never won on those numbers that 'must be played' - license plate numbers you see twice, a palindromic grocery bill, etc...but those numbers must be played

Reply #55

Dollar419 — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 21:52:03 GMT

When you can write your lotto numbers by memory frontward and backward

Reply #54

jrosina — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 09:13:51 GMT

When you look at the LP's number of views and say Humm! it looks like a good pick 4

Reply #53

Hermanus104 — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 02:38:50 GMT

Slight addition:

Your child can't count because the lottery balls aren't drawn in numerical order!

Never teach your child to count by letting him watch the lottery.

Reply #52

Hermanus104 — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 02:37:55 GMT

You know all the numbers drawn in all the games for the past 10 years ... and your state has had a lottery for only 5

Reply #51

marcie — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 23:25:13 GMT

Keep winning the money

Reply #50

marcie — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 23:23:58 GMT

quiet storm you know how to get the money! Haters, that's all! Keep winning the money! Lucky lady I have block all of the haters

Reply #49

lottocalgal — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 13:34:57 GMT

You know you've been playing lotto a while when .....

Your child is having trouble in math because he cant count higher than 49 on Wedsdays and Saturdays.

sorry I couldnt resist

Reply #48

jrosina — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 05:17:07 GMT

That one is funnyyyyy and not too far from the truth

Reply #47

Coin Toss — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 05:12:09 GMT

When you're paying for groceries with a check and the cashier tells you the total and you say, Can I write it boxed

Reply #46

jrosina — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 05:08:39 GMT

Aha quietstorm, you are waxing digitaly poetic to me you smart person, That is how you play this thing! but you know you have been at this a while, when the neighbor ask you to baby sit their kids and you say to them Hey Carli, Pauli you want to go to the store with me so we can look at the pretty numbers

Reply #45

quietstorm2 — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 04:58:32 GMT

When you know which #'s fall in a paticular month and you ride it that month until it comes

Reply #44

Litebets27 — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 02:14:41 GMT

joker, you are too funny.

Reply #43

we;reallwinners — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 01:37:57 GMT

cough......what she said!!!!!!!!!!! HA

Reply #42

lottocalgal — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 01:35:33 GMT

hehehehahhahahahahahehheheh ehehahhahhehehehehwehehehehehhehheheeh snort snort snort, hehehehehehahahahaheheheheh cough cough cough hehehehahhahahahahahahahahaah.

Reply #41

joker17 — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 01:29:25 GMT

I know I've been playing too long when I start wheeling my bills.

Reply #40

we;reallwinners — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 01:29:20 GMT

When you feel like you're playing Deal or No Deal when you ask for a Scratcher.......... I'll take #13 ............HA

Reply #39

cheryl59 — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 01:08:37 GMT

OMG trulyblessed! I just did that the other day... I was supposed to front, back and split the 2's and the 7's and when I looked down at my tickets (after I got home of course!) I front, back and split the 2's only,(twice) of course that nite in the drawing the number that came out was 577

Reply #38

tiggs95 — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 23:02:05 GMT

You know you been playing the lotto awhile when you go into Krogers late and they say Man your late today ...:):)...

Reply #37

Coin Toss — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:37:14 GMT

When you see someone where you play lotto that you only see when you play lotto and you know what scratchers or number game each other are going to play!

When you see such a person and wonder if they are on LP, and if so, their username

Reply #36

tiggs95 — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:18:33 GMT

Find a store with no line..There must be some place else..I always let people ahead of me but I don't hold the line up at all..I'm fast..Got tickets in hand and money in hand..

Reply #35

jrosina — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 21:48:47 GMT

LadyM, I am starting to feel love for you for real!!! you and Rdgnr are my favorites with apologies to no one... well except Todd.

We are certifiable when I walk into the store, some clients there that know me sometimes would tap me on the shoulder and say ahm, do you think I could go ahead of you please? They know they will be waithing for a while... One morning I got on the line there were two persons ahead of me, and two behing me when I got to the clerck; by the time she finished with me... [ More ]

Reply #34

LadyMylena — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:58:59 GMT

ha ha! Yes definitely long lost sisters. The wallpaper thing everyone's talking about is hilarious. I have so many used and unused slips, and old lottery tickets, anyone that saw it, would question my sanity.

Reply #33

LadyMylena — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:55:14 GMT

Yes, I throw them off, too, if I walk in and get anything OTHER than lottery tix. LOL! I also have a couple of clerks that get a scowl and try to avoid me. I bet they're thinking, Oh my God, here comes that gal with all the lottery slips again and cursing the very sight of me. I can just feel one of them, she hates my guts, but tries so hard to be polite to me, when she'd really like to run to the back when she sees me coming. I'm almost enough to make her want to quit her job, I just know it.... [ More ]

Reply #32

jrosina — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:08:36 GMT

When the clerck at the store hands you a handfull of number-tickets you forgot the night before

Reply #31

Litebets27 — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:33:04 GMT

You are soooo right. This happens to me all of the time. I try to throw the store Clerk off from time to time, by walking over to the soda or chips first.

Reply #30

lottocalgal — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:12:41 GMT

You know you've been playing lotto (too long) when the clerk, upon seeing you walk in the store automatically walks over to the lottery terminal instead of the cash register.

(that actually happens to me) ehehehehehehehehahhahahahahaha

I also have a lottery ticket bookmark

Reply #29

jrosina — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:26:28 GMT

LadyM You have me roling LmAOOOOOOoo This is the best one!!! I am Laughing like Crazy Too funny, I believe we are sisters because that is me!!! I could wall paper a room with the darn things!! Lol.

Reply #28

tiggs95 — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 11:26:39 GMT

Went to the store one Sunday morning to buy a newspaper got home with lotto tickets in my hand and my wife asked where the paper was and I said I be right back ..duuuuh...Also when I got to the store I found two of my lotto ticket's on the floor as I walked in the store..Glad it was real early and no one had been there since me..This is a true story..When you old this stuff happens...easy...

Reply #27

cheryl59 — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:58:44 GMT

When you are on the way to work in the morning and notice that you need to stop for gas, you stop at the store and buy your lottery tickets and forget about the gas

and run out of gas on the way to work ! (yes there is a lesson to be learned here

Reply #26

cheryl59 — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:49:51 GMT

He He He Ha Ha Ha

Reply #25

Coin Toss — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 06:54:53 GMT

When two people ahead of you in a checkout line get the same total, or when you get a total that is a palindromic number, and such things have to be played!

When you find lottery articles that you cut out from tabloids a long time ago.

Reply #24

beaudad — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 05:45:55 GMT

or you are in the Drive Thru and they say There's that Lottery Guy .......lol......

Reply #23

djklaugh — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 05:17:26 GMT

You know you've been playing lotto a while when ....

You have enough old playslips to paper your den or family room

You know the clerks at the store so well you ask about their families at each visit .... and they ask about yours

You have enough nonwinning tickets to paper your bathroom

You know all of the stores in your area that have had jackpot winners ... and all the ones that have never had a winner

Reply #22

Coin Toss — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 04:41:06 GMT

When you waited for the Saturday night drawing (it was the only one).

Reply #21

Delta Draw — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 03:46:58 GMT

When you are surprised that you actually won.

Reply #20

dr65 — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 03:26:04 GMT

When you can instantly mentally record as good or dismiss as bad any number a person in line ahead of you is saying to the clerk. It's worse yet

when you can calculate the sums, process HLH, LLL, HHH, HLL...EEO, OOO, EEE, OOE....know the last time it showed up...know the set up....and

struggle to stiffle the urge to say:

Why don't you play xxx?

or:

Put more on it.

or:

Are you nuts

Reply #19

trulyblessed — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 03:02:57 GMT

You know you've been playing lotto a while when...the winning number on a scratchoff is 26 and you have 29. You have flipped so long for a second you think you won

Reply #18

Rowen — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 02:56:59 GMT

...when you ask a girl at the bar for her numbers just so you can play them on pick 3 and pick 4 instead of calling her for a date. Well you might if it's a big winner

Reply #17

sully16 — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 02:56:23 GMT

When someone asks you a simple yes or no question and you answer with a with a string of numbers.

Reply #16

Litebets27 — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 02:49:34 GMT

Reply #15

Litebets27 — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 02:48:25 GMT

Maddog, that reminds me...

My husband recites his numbers to the clerk, and if he makes the mistake and leave off a number they will remind him of it. What, your not playing 0887

Reply #14

Rowen — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 02:37:06 GMT

...when you go to the gas station or grocery store but only come out with wadful of lottery tickets instead. Heck i would go to a funeral home or dentist office if there is lotto teminal there.

Reply #13

MADDOG10 — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 02:10:21 GMT

When you can walk into the store and recite your numbers you're playing without handing the clerk your betslip, and he prints them out without your bet slip.

Reply #12

JonnyBgood07 — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 02:08:30 GMT

What he said.Except I don't get the chance to see it through the day from work because I have limited internet privleges.

You know you've been playing lotto a while when... when you have your significant other email you the midday results

Reply #11

chipp — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 02:03:21 GMT

When the clerk hits the cancel button tap tap tap...tap tap tap

Reply #10

tiggs95 — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 01:46:51 GMT

When you ALWAYS hit a free ticket on a scratch-off..Sick of that..Think I'd rather lose then win that!!..joke..

Reply #9

MzDuffleBaglady — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 01:41:16 GMT

I keep looking in my purse for wining tickets, and the ticket says, Jan. 10th, 2010 579 and the winning number is Jan. 12, 2010.

When you have a shoe box full of old lottery tickets, lottery books, lol.

Reply #8

Blackie — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 01:35:49 GMT

when the first thing you do in the morning when you get up is log onto LP, and the last thing you do at night before bed is log off of LP. Of course throughout the day , you check in multiple times like I do.

Reply #7

Astekblue — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 01:19:10 GMT

When They Start Calling You Lottery Man !!!!!!!!

Sad But True

Astekblue

Reply #6

Litebets27 — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 01:10:48 GMT

Oh yeah! It's so embarrassing, and I always catch their eyes open wide with amazement. (waitress), (me).

Reply #5

LadyMylena — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:54:49 GMT

you open your purse to tip your waitress and lottery tickets fall out..(or maybe I play too much..or clean out my purse!)

Oh that's me! My purse is full of lottery tickets, and especially all the marking slips! lol They are always sticking up out of my purse, when I go to pay for anything. I have to hurry and stuff them back in, and I know everybody up at the corner store already thinks I'm NUTS, due to my obsession with buying lottery tickets.

Reply #4

Jani Norman — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:26:04 GMT

Good one

Reply #3

Litebets27 — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:11:56 GMT

have and have done all of the above...

You know you've been playing the lottery for awhile when......

you can call in your numbers to your favorite store...

you enter the store and everyone yells your name and approach you for hints...

you open your purse to tip your waitress and lottery tickets fall out..(or maybe I play too much..or clean out my purse

Reply #2

LottoPools — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:06:35 GMT

When you have so many lottery related emails you need to set up an email address just for the pools you run.

When one of the thickest files in your file cabinet is the one with the old tickets in it.

Reply #1

rdgrnr — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:03:00 GMT

When the lottery clerk knows you so well that she has a pet name for you - like Sugar Britches for example.

You know you've been playing lotto a while when...

Coin Toss — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 23:50:20 GMT

Let's do a 'complete the sentence' thread for fun.

You know you've been playing the lottery for a while when.......

Your platic ticket lottery wallet they give out says The Big Game on it.

You find playslips used as bookmarks in books you've read years ago.

Somebody talking about something else entirely mentions a date and you know what numbers were drawn.

You have playslips from two or three matrix changes ago.