Thanks for Dinner!

A few months ago I wrote about 2nd Chance Scratchers and how I pick up the discarded ones whenever I'm out walking. Since I haven't had a car for over a month, I've been doing a LOT of walking. On any given day I pick up at least ONE. Today I found FIVE.

I bring them home and enter them into the 2nd Chance drawing. I figure there's nothing to lose, and plenty to gain.

The other day I picked one up, brought it home, entered the code and received message telling me that I had either entered the code incorrectly, or...the card was a WINNER. I entered the code two more times and received the same message. At that point I realized that I truly had a WINNER on my hands. How exciting!

I looked closely at the card and could see that all of the boxes had been scratched. In the scratcher's haste, they failed to notice that one of the boxes was an automatic WINNER...a TWENTY FIVE DOLLAR automatic WINNER. WHEW!!!

I say a prayer of thanks every time I find a discarded scratcher, and said an even greater prayer of thanks when I saw that I had won TWENTY FIVE DOLLARS. Something similar happened once before, but that card was only an EIGHT DOLLAR WINNER.

I know what's going on.

Folks scratch so quickly, hoping to win, that they don't always pay attention and end up throwing away winning cards.

On this evening's walk, I found the card that's pictured. As you can see, it was ripped in half BEFORE it even got scratched. Folks need to slow down...although I'm thankful that they don't.

Was the card a winner?

No. But it could've been...and without me having had to spend a cent.

With the twenty five dollar winnings, I treated myself to a footlong combo at Subway. So technically, not only was tonight's DINNER free...but tomorrow's LUNCH will be also since there's half a sandwich left. That's "win-win" if ever there was one.

Now it's YOUR turn: Let the DIALOGUE begin: Have you ever found "free" money?

Talk to me!

Til next time...