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Had a bit of luck today - there was a big lotto draw on the weekend, and the work lotto syndicate won a nice little sum of a System 9 ticket (don't ask me to explain the systems, I don't understand them myself). Somewhere over $6400 all up, so between us all (adding in some we already had in the kitty) we each got $279.90 :D. Anyway, the collecting and handing out of money turned into a production bigger than Ben Hur!
As things went:
- people ambushed on the way on with the news before She-Who-Has-The-Tickets arrives thanks to photocopies (Oh-early-hundred hours on a Monday - no reaction is going to come from me...)
- She-Who-Has-The-Tickets arrives, had run them through a lotto machine, NADA!
- Place explodes in a flurry of seeking whys wherefores, where's our money? Turns out Ticket-Jockey had offered to take the tickets for binning, but SWHTT decided to bring them back in case anyone wanted to see, so everything was checked - dates, numbers, yup (turns out last week's ticket had the same numbers). Luckily even if the tickets had been lost, they were registered so we'd get a cheque anyway. Except I reckon people would've exploded if they'd had to wait...
- Contact made with He-Who-Used-To-Buy-The-Tickets-But-Is-On-Leave-Now, since the registration's still in his name. He comes in, and SWHTT and HWUTBTT toddle off to the Lottery Commission HQ in Osborne Park (anything over $500 has to be claimed directly) - ok, he was more dragged away when he showed up :lol:, with helpful suggestions of getting the whole lot in $1 coins ringing in their ears :angel:
- The Hunters return with loads of cash. Some people want to see what $6400 cash looks like (all colourful and stuffed into an envelope). Yes, I was one of them, and started listening to my inner-Anya by stroking the money :lol: And then the sadness of it being taken away *sniffle*
- The money is divvied up (eventually, it had to be redone a couple of times). Naturally mine is one of the ones with four dollars in ten cent pieces :lol: Watch out vending machines! ;)
- Everyone collapses exhausted as the high-energy atmosphere dissipates... "Say! One of you guys know how to Matterson?"
Rich *hehe* full day. :)
As things went:
- people ambushed on the way on with the news before She-Who-Has-The-Tickets arrives thanks to photocopies (Oh-early-hundred hours on a Monday - no reaction is going to come from me...)
- She-Who-Has-The-Tickets arrives, had run them through a lotto machine, NADA!
- Place explodes in a flurry of seeking whys wherefores, where's our money? Turns out Ticket-Jockey had offered to take the tickets for binning, but SWHTT decided to bring them back in case anyone wanted to see, so everything was checked - dates, numbers, yup (turns out last week's ticket had the same numbers). Luckily even if the tickets had been lost, they were registered so we'd get a cheque anyway. Except I reckon people would've exploded if they'd had to wait...
- Contact made with He-Who-Used-To-Buy-The-Tickets-But-Is-On-Leave-Now, since the registration's still in his name. He comes in, and SWHTT and HWUTBTT toddle off to the Lottery Commission HQ in Osborne Park (anything over $500 has to be claimed directly) - ok, he was more dragged away when he showed up :lol:, with helpful suggestions of getting the whole lot in $1 coins ringing in their ears :angel:
- The Hunters return with loads of cash. Some people want to see what $6400 cash looks like (all colourful and stuffed into an envelope). Yes, I was one of them, and started listening to my inner-Anya by stroking the money :lol: And then the sadness of it being taken away *sniffle*
- The money is divvied up (eventually, it had to be redone a couple of times). Naturally mine is one of the ones with four dollars in ten cent pieces :lol: Watch out vending machines! ;)
- Everyone collapses exhausted as the high-energy atmosphere dissipates... "Say! One of you guys know how to Matterson?"
Rich *hehe* full day. :)
