So I run a pool at work with signed agreements for "Florida Lotto" and "Florida Mega Money" with 10 players and "Powerball" with 20 players when PB is over $100 Million. I always buy the Lotto between Thursdays and Saturdays and I always buy the Mega Money before the first drawing of the month and I buy the Mega Money for the entire month, $180 worth of tickets. I have been going to the same convient store for about 5 months. Whenever I buy the tickets I always say "Florida Lotto" or Florida Mega Money" so there are no confusions on my part because sometimes Mega Millions wants to come out and I know if I say Florida, then I will pause for a second to think what I am about to say.
So last night about 9:45pm I bought our tickets and she printed out $180 worth of Mega Millions. At first I thought she was joking but she was not. Then I was starting to doubt myself, did I say Florida Mega Million??? No, I am almost positively sure I said Florida Mega Money. I started thinking, should I get these or should I get our Mega Money that everybody expects to play. The difference in the odds are 1:2.9 mill compared to 1:258 million. I told her to get me my Mega Money tickets because if I kept the others, somebody might say thats not acceptable, and I myself do not have $180 out of my pocket to get the tickets everybody paid for and signed for in the agreement, and I know she can't afford that either.
Here is where it gets worse. In the past she was confused with the advanced plays one time when I said, "I need 20 QP tickets, for 9 drawings, so it would be drawings from the 3rd to the 31st." So since then its kinda been a joke when I go in, I'm keeping it simple for you, 10 QP for Fl. Lotto. and last night, the other clerk said she could help me, I said, no I want her, gonna make her work tonight, and we all laughed.
This is obviously most likely will come out of her check since Multi State games can not be canceled so I offered that I will see what everybody wants to do, chip in some money, but thats no garuntee. I told her if she can sell it to somebody else to do so. I checked for the numbers a lil while ago and there are only 19 Florida winners that won $500 on non megaplier. All other winners are lesser ammounts. I feel bad about this situation, did I do the right thing?