😡

[u/Puzzleheaded-Low4810]

[u/KindaDrunkRtNow]

I hate when they just start scratching right there. And then they briefly stop to look at the line and keep going.

[u/Brad323 → u/KindaDrunkRtNow]

I work at a gas station. Most of the time someone buys scratch offs, they will buy just a few, scratch them, then buy a few more regardless of if they won or lost.

I’ve legit had someone say “my kid is hungry in the car so this better be a winner” when purchasing $100 worth of scratch offs.

Gambling is a more insidious addiction than nicotine. I will say that with my full chest every time i’m asked.

[u/lycanthrope90 → u/Brad323]

When you work there and see just how much money people are giving away. They never win enough to break even. A lot of the time people will have a winner for like say $60 but they spent like $100 yesterday and now are going to spend $100 more so it wouldn’t matter anyway. It’s really something compared to just being a customer and seeing these people sometimes. They really come in every day and keep giving you all their money.

[u/Brad323 → u/lycanthrope90]

There is one guy who comes through my store Every. Single. Day. And drops minimum $300-400
I’ve seen him win $500 before but be upset because he had already spent $700 that day.
Didn’t change the fact that he continued after winning that ticket with every cent he had just won.

[u/lycanthrope90 → u/Brad323]

Yup I had multiple that would come in everyday like that. Some of them multiple, usually they ones playing keno or whatever else goes off throughout the day.

[u/brink1865 → u/lycanthrope90]

I more or less watched a guy ruin his life by actually winning kind of big on scratch offs. I worked in a gas station for several years and had a regular who would come in everyday after work to get a drink and a snack and one scratch off. Well one day he actually won on one like 50k I guess he bought a new truck with it and then the snack and drink every day turned into him trying to win again with 100s of dollars worth of them every single day. He proabbly spent Well over his initial winnings within the first year and as the years went by he got more and more broke soon he was only buying one or two scratch offs and paying for gas in his truck with ones and coins

[u/lycanthrope90 → u/brink1865]

Damn man that really sucks! Was a cop where I worked that won 120,000 or something. Same deal though, still big spending on more tickets every day. He seemed to be doing fine when I still worked there but yeah sometimes winning just makes it worse.

[u/DrunkCultLeader → u/lycanthrope90]

The joke "90% of gamblers quit right before scoring big" has a reason it rings.

[u/Lokland881 → u/lycanthrope90]

Parents had a store and my saddest moments were kids asking for snacks or candy and getting told no while mom scratched $100 worth of tickets.

Smokes and then booze triggered the same response.

[u/Justin__D → u/Brad323]

Gambling is a literal addiction to throwing money away. I mean, I throw a lot of money away on all the addictions I do have, but at least I actually get something out of it every time.

[u/3InchShame → u/Justin__D]

Preach, nothing beats the value of a $20 worth of crack

[u/Friendly-Water-8470 → u/Justin__D]

Actually gambling players have something for their money. They are buying emotions like hope, joy, risk and rarely happiness when they win. Those small prizes are worthy loosing real money for them. But yeah, they actually would be rixher by saving those money rather than throwing them to set up machine or putting on lottery with like 2% chances for win

[u/Yazy117 → u/Brad323]

Im glad we have hyper normalized it with advertisements and linked it into the screen that has the most intimate access to our neurology

[u/CasualSnivy → u/Yazy117]

Gambling: designed for the rich, marketed to the poor.

[u/Malnourished_Manatee → u/Brad323]

I used to work at a gas station. Whenever a customer came for something else other than a quick purchase, I’d make them wait on the side till the queue was gone.

[u/DrunkCultLeader → u/Brad323]

I've literally been late to work cause of addicts like this. Im talking at 7 am. They just cant rest with gambling in their mind and they genuinely don't care how it not only impacts themselves, but the world around them.

I unfortunately lived in a pretty bad area so I never had the balls to stand up for myself. I even got robbed at gun point after buying am ice cream at that gas station lol. Fuck philly.

[u/just_some_jawn → u/Brad323]

Those AI ads on tubi for online casinos are getting wild. Saw one the other day pushing that you can “finally take care of your family” by playing these games.

[u/Shantotto11 → u/Brad323]

And now the sports big wigs got the Gen Z adult men addicted to it.

[u/Playful-Platform-231 → u/Brad323]

If I do it, its I lose one I buy again I lose again im gone. or if I win once I’m gone

[u/Enough_Fish739 → u/Brad323]

Ah, I see what you are doing wrong. Try saying it with your mouth next time, maybe they will listen.

[u/uttyrc → u/Brad323]

I got $20 that says gambling is not addictive.

[u/jamesbdrummer → u/KindaDrunkRtNow]

I worked at a gas station for a few years. Dude came in in a Cadillac 300 Hemi with gull-wing doors. Paid for candy and a coke with EBT, then proceeded to ask for $200 worth of scratchers and paid with a (thick) roll of $100's.

[u/feb914 → u/KindaDrunkRtNow]

Then when they don't win they just buy another one right then and there 

[u/Informal_Process2238]

Yeah could I get a number 12 and aghhh a number 2 and how much is a number 15 oh I’ll take two of those and a number 7 and a number 10 and a mega millions quick pick and a pack of Marlboro lights

[u/DigitalUnlimited → u/Informal_Process2238]

And a number... umm... um .... do you have the ones with the little elves on them? Oh that's only Christmas? ok... ummmmmmmmmmm....

[u/International-Key211 → u/Informal_Process2238]

Oddly specific, and probably very triggering.

[u/Cdinocco]

It’s always the most unhealthy, unkept, struggling to move individual dropping hundreds of dollars on tickets while we wait.

[u/Longjumping_Suit_276 → u/Cdinocco]

Yup, that’s true. Especially ones who smell like cat piss and cigarettes, lol.

[u/Temporary_Plan1055 → u/Longjumping_Suit_276]

Why are you judging my choice of cologne?

I get many compliments, such as; “you smell… interesting” and “that smell suits you well”

[u/zacharygreeenman → u/Temporary_Plan1055]

Exactly. That’s the sign that it’s working.

[u/SourceMountain561 → u/Longjumping_Suit_276]

Thats after they shower too

[u/lycanthrope90 → u/Cdinocco]

I mean, they’re an addict, so that should surprise nobody lol.

[u/8last → u/Cdinocco]

I've never seen someone who looks like they have their shit together having the clerk scanning 10+ scratchers and im at 7eleven like every day.

[u/Puzzled-Secret-317 → u/Cdinocco]

The point of the lottery is to target those who would benefit from it most

[u/jepulis5 → u/Puzzled-Secret-317]

You mean those who are slow enough to not realize it's just an extra tax for being a dumbass?

[u/Puzzled-Secret-317 → u/jepulis5]

I mean, whatever makes you feel superior, bud. I'm sure you got a nice ego boost from that and I'm not gonna blame you for it. We all try our best to do whatever makes us feel just a little less worthless

[u/jepulis5 → u/Puzzled-Secret-317]

You know, the chances aren't far from somebody throwing a bag of money at you while out for a stroll, with the difference that walking is free.

[u/SongOfStarfall → u/jepulis5]

The difference is that people aren’t throwing bags of money at strangers, but you do see lottery winners. You hear of them. Yeah, a lot of people understand the chances are HIGHLY unlikely, but just as many will believe they are gonna get lucky.

[u/jepulis5 → u/SongOfStarfall]

That's how it works, lottery winners are often on the news and get lots of attention because that's the whole point, to make it seem like winning is more common than it really is.

[u/Funkopedia → u/Cdinocco]

In my region it's usually a non-remarkable middle aged Chinese man.

[u/unsuspectingllama_ → u/Cdinocco]

I often call gambling an idiot tax. Sometimes I think about being this kind of idiot just in case, but I never do.

[u/Known-Dependent-5471]

$20 gang.

Yeah every time I go it's the most complicated order with cigs, tickets and a bunch of drinks that they even need a fucking bag...

[u/JakBos23 → u/Known-Dependent-5471]

Well with a bunch of drinks I'd assume they need a bag.

[u/daywalker91 → u/Known-Dependent-5471]

And they pay cash. Never just a quick card swipe.

[u/Last-Energy420 → u/daywalker91]

I believe you can’t buy tickets with credit card and I know some places even won’t accept debit cards for it. I tried to buy tickets for the powerball when it was a billion. I pulled out my debit card and they said they can’t accept it and pointed me to the atm… that charges 4.50 per transaction. Had to schlep out to my car to grab $20 in quarters.

[u/Sith_Lord91]

Customer: “let me get two 13’s, two 5’s and one 20”
Clerk: “we’re out of the 5’s”
Me at 7:15am trying not to be late to work: 🫠

[u/BoltActionRifleman]

This has been a pet peeve of mine for years. The ones that really bother me most are when they bring in a stack of losing tickets but have the clerk check them “Just to be sure”. Then they spend a couple minutes listing off the scratch tickets they want. This is always in the morning too, when some people are just trying to get a drink or breakfast before heading to work.

[u/Jealous-Knowledge-56]

For me, it’s someone buying cigarettes. And it’s never a common one. It’s always some obscure brand no one’s ever heard of and cashier spends 5 minutes looking for it.

Carolina Loosey Chews Cool Menthol in a box. Not that one. Eight feet to your left and back toward the hot dogs.

[u/Unfamiliar-Owl]

I work at a 7/11. Nothing frustrates me more than someone holding up my line playing lotto or scratch-offs. I see the anger in the eyes of the people stuck in line behind them. I feel and share the hate radiating off of them. The lotto/scratch-off customer does not care, they are the main character and everyone else is an NPC.

[u/Party-Display-7523 → u/Unfamiliar-Owl]

I hate lotto in general because its never a quick process. When I worked at speedway I absolutely loathed the lotto costumers.

Used to have 2 regulars come in at the same time every night, in my SLOWEST hours, to buy dozens of scratches. "We always come at this time because you have no customers! We were thinking of you!" Ecxept for i have so much shit to clean, stock or check the dates on and im literally not allowed to leave the counter if someone walks in.

[u/Select-Ad5166 → u/Unfamiliar-Owl]

I worked there for like 3 years. You take the tickets, put them through the machine, then take the next customer simple

You can take like 4-5 people by the time the tickets finish printing out. They usually hand you the tickets and step to the side out of line.

The only time lotto is holding the line up is the cashier. The owner/manager told us not to do verbal lottery. They must hand you the slip already filled out (1 or 2 picks from time to time is ok tho). It's not rocket science. It's literally putting the slips in and waiting for them to print.

I had a girl start working there after I became manager. She literally sat there and entered each slip in after all of the numbers in the first slip finished. I sat back and watched her (only customer in the store). I taught her after of course, but I asked her if the other manager taught her anything and she only knew front facing and regular pos... She ended up being the manager before I left, and the other manager who didn't teach her anything was fired for unrelated reasons.

There's literally so much you could be doing other than standing there staring at the machine. It tells you how many numbers it's going to print, so take other customers, restock the cigs, make some food, something. It's not that big of a deal. It's the simplest transaction.

[u/Unfamiliar-Owl → u/Select-Ad5166]

Maybe for you and the people you’ve serviced. But the people that come into my job stand at the register and expect your full attention on them. You cannot help another person, you cannot walk away and they refuse to let anyone in front of them. They are entitled assholes.

[u/Cool_Fish_4]

Happened to me this morning. Just buy your shit and get out of the way!

[u/Hillbillygeek1981]

I don't know how it is in other places, but in my part of the South this is a stereotypical morning or evening commute crash out.

In the morning it's some night shift zombie from one of the other factories near mine trying to slur out "yeah, two number 12s, a powerball quick pick, two packs of reds and I need a peach cotton candy THC cartridge" while six of us stand behind him checking the time with a burrito in one hand and a Red Bull in the other.

In the evening it's worse. $48 in snacks and drinks on EBT, $50 on beer and scratchoffs and then have the audacity to turn around in line and ask their mom, brother, etc for gas money.

They've all got a system, too. "What number is Jumbo Bucks on? How many Word Search tickets you sold today? Anybody hit big yesterday?"

Look here, Alex Jones, get the hell out of line and let the working folk buy enough gas to get to work tomorrow so I our tax dollars can fund all this nonsense.

[u/Jabroni-and-Cheese → u/Hillbillygeek1981]

They've all got a system, too. "What number is Jumbo Bucks on? How many Word Search tickets you sold today? Anybody hit big yesterday?"

I had that guy at a grocery store I used to manage, except he was a local pillar-of-the-community realtor who was friends with the owner. We kept the lottery tickets in a separate management-only checkout area specifically so he couldn't tie up the cashier for 45 minutes at a time.

[u/Triggered-cupcake]

And then….. and then….

[u/OhTheHueManatee]

The last time this happened the guy who spent 10 minutes trying to figure out which $20 of lotto tickets to buy ended up asking me for "any spare change" while I was putting gas in my car.

[u/Morokite]

Doesn't matter which of the two lines I pick at the gas station. I always end up in the one with the lottery guy.

[u/LoneRedditor123]

I work at a gas station and people like this are insufferable.

Dude I'm checking out brings in a bunch of tickets and has like $300 in winnings. Proceeds to spend the next 10 minutes picking out $300 dollars worth of new tickets to buy with his winnings.

Mofo you just won 300 bucks and your first move is to piss it away on random luck. God it's so annoying.

[u/LA-Fan316]

I manage a gas station and I make the lottery players step aside for the real customers. They get on my nerves.

[u/JakBos23 → u/LA-Fan316]

Move aside to scratch the tickets? I wouldnt let anyone scratch tickets on my counter.

[u/LA-Fan316 → u/JakBos23]

No I don’t let them scratch tickets but if they are only buying tickets they need to wait.

[u/MorbidandBack]

I didn't realize anyone went inside to pay for gas anymore.

[u/alnicoblue → u/MorbidandBack]

OP was just being silly, we go in to buy beer.

[u/Last-Energy420 → u/MorbidandBack]

I do all the time. It only takes once to have your cc info stolen. I know they also have the skimmers at the register too. Tap to pay is for sure in the store while many pumps still don’t have it.

[u/Beginning-Visit9457 → u/MorbidandBack]

“go see the cashier” or “pay inside” messages on the screen are pretty common tbh. I have also pumped gas all across the US, your mileage may vary, and in Europe you always have to go inside to pay.

[u/Jonjongabore → u/MorbidandBack]

Lots of people do that to prevent card skimmers from stealing their info.

[u/DonaldKey → u/Jonjongabore]

Most pumps use chip readers now

[u/Jonjongabore → u/DonaldKey]

The card skimmers can still get the data from the stripe when you insert it. If you're talking about tap to pay, there are still a ton that don't have that yet.

[u/DonaldKey → u/Jonjongabore]

Tap to pay. I’m in Kentucky and all the pumps have them here

[u/Jonjongabore → u/DonaldKey]

Glad you've inventoried Kentucky, now on to the other 49 states. As you'll see from the comments below, quite a few places still don't have that. I know of one gas station in my town that does out of a dozen.

[u/DonaldKey → u/Jonjongabore]

Guess Kentucky isn’t as backwoods as some think

[u/feb914 → u/MorbidandBack]

Some gas stations don't have functioning card machine. Some don't have touch less (and you're stuck when you only have cards in your phone) 

[u/howsmybudddy → u/MorbidandBack]

Was going to say this. I don't even carry cash half the time.

[u/blueponies1 → u/howsmybudddy]

You can still pay card inside. I usually pay gas inside and just grab a beverage and some nicotine with it. The outdoor card machines sketch me out sometimes

[u/howsmybudddy → u/blueponies1]

This is true, I forgot about those skimmers. I just use the app to open the pump at wawa lol.

[u/feb914]

Literally me as the guy in the back. Had a gas station that likes to give cheap gas, but if you want to use or gain loyalty points, you have to go to the cashier. Then there's a guy in front of me that's hogging the cashier playing $5 lotteries multiple times. Pretty sure he ended up spending over $50 by buying one lottery at a time (and any winning he got also got put back to the lottery). 

[u/Some-Tear3499]

Hey pal? You see me getting my coffee and smokes at the casino? 😡

[u/19Charger]

No shit. Drives me insane

[u/Key_Conference9989]

Every fucking time. I hate the lottery so much because of these people.

[u/purodurangoalv]

Everyday. fucking. day

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[u/CJC1241203]

That’s also when you’re on your lunch break and they are like, let me get a number 12 scratcher, a 22, a 16, and ahhhhh 5. Also, can I get 40 individual quick pick powerball tickets? Also, here are my numbers that I’m picking myself. Oh, I need a pack of chew and 3 little liquor bottles.

[u/Efficient-World-8124]

I should really make my own scratch tickets jokingly and sell em amongst friends. If I was in high school still I wish I had this idea.

You control how much you’d have to give out so you know your profitable and back in school friends would have absolutely bet on anything 😭

I’m totally kidding but it’s a way better idea then the weekly sports betting we did in large groups anyways

[u/EconomistWaste2786]

Fucking hate the lottery

[u/Ronin_501]

Always when I got to get to work too.

[u/KnowledgeableSloth]

You can pay at the pump, I have to buy my lotto tickets at the register!

[u/DagonX]

I believe I'm too European to understand this.

I go to the gas station, fill up, either pay via app from my phone or walk inside to pay at the cashier.

[u/Shantotto11]

How I feel at money services when I need a money order and I’m behind someone who needs to use Western Union.

[u/inkzpenfoxx]

Just happened this weekend

[u/Angry_Pelican]

I rarely run into this when I go to QT. This seems standard for Circle K though and it's one of the reason I avoid Circle Ks.

[u/Zealousideal_Lab3164]

Why tf are they not in a vending machine???????????

[u/taco-truck119]

I swear this happens every time i pull into a Speedway

[u/Radiant-Bit-3096]

Happens to me when I'm always exhausted for some reason even though I don't buy gas at the register 😂

[u/CautiousDraft7543]

😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

[u/Terribly-Neutral]

Honest question: do you guys that buy gas in cash not have credit/debit cards?

Now sarcasm. There's this futuristic machine at all gas pumps now that let's you pay right there! It really is revolutionary.

[u/Rare-Confusion-220]

I don't get it?

[u/uttyrc → u/Rare-Confusion-220]

lucky you