Robert Smith

I am so unbelievably furious I am literally shaking and crying in my car right now! I spent my absolute last $3.00 of my weekly budget on this Texas Lottery ticket hoping for a miracle and I actually won $20.00! I proudly walked up to the counter to cash it in and the clerk told me they have a new corporate policy that requires a $25.00 linguistic processing fee to cash out any winning crossword tickets! A LINGUISTIC PROCESSING FEE?? She looked at my wife and said if we cannot afford the administrative tax then we should not be playing premium vocabulary games! She literally kept my winning ticket behind the register as collateral until I bring her the fee! I am exposing this gas station on the local news because extorting broke people over a $20.00 win is absolutely disgusting!

Second $500 winner this week and I am honestly starting to think the gas station clerk hates seeing me walk through the door. I handed him this ticket with the instant $500 symbol showing and he stared at it way too long before saying, “You already won earlier this week, so the scanner might hold this one for a cooling period.” A COOLING PERIOD?? Since when does a scratch ticket need time to process my good luck emotionally? I took the ticket back before he could scan anything because that explanation made absolutely no sense. Has anyone ever heard of a limit on how many $500 winners you can cash in one week?

My wife told me to check the ticket again before cashing it because she noticed the 05 in my numbers matches the winning 05 at the top. I already found the queen symbol for an instant $100, but now I cannot tell whether there is another prize hiding under the matching number. The clerk said the queen makes the ticket a “flat $100 winner” and everything else becomes decorative. DECORATIVE?? Why print matching numbers if they suddenly stop mattering? What total are you getting from this?

I am so unbelievably furious I cannot even see straight right now! I am exactly 3 weeks new to buying scratchers so I bought a few $3.00 Loteria cards to play at home with my wife. My 18 year old daughter saw them on the table and literally ripped them up because she said playing anything under a $20.00 ticket is completely embarrassing for our family aesthetic! EMBARRASSING FOR OUR AESTHETIC?? She actually stole $100.00 out of my wallet to go buy $20.00 tickets because she claimed the chances are better and the $3.00 ones have peasant energy! She is permanently grounded until she is 45 years old and I am selling her designer shoes to pay myself back! What is the appropriate punishment for an entitled teenager who destroys my property over scratcher odds?!

Am I overreacting?? I literally fractured my clavicle two weeks ago and can barely move my arm so my wife drove me to the gas station to buy my mom a few $1.00 scratchers to cheer us up. I scratched this ticket in the store and won exactly $10.00 but the cashier refused to cash it out because he claimed the ticket was structurally compromised by how hard I was scratching with my bad arm! STRUCTURALLY COMPROMISED?? He literally said my broken bone kinetic energy voided the barcode and then tried to keep the ticket for a restocking fee! I demanded the manager and he threatened to call the police on my wife for illegal gambling! Do I sue the lottery commission or just report this literal thief to the state?!

After months of buying this Mystery Crossword ticket, I finally uncovered the magnifying glass in the letters section and nearly scratched straight past it because I was focused on counting words. I brought it to the counter feeling excited, and the cashier told me the glass is only a “search assistance symbol” unless the scanner confirms a separate prize. A SEARCH ASSISTANCE SYMBOL?? Why put a magnifying glass on a scratch ticket if it is not supposed to mean something? I took the ticket back because I want to read the instructions myself before anyone scans it. Has anybody hit the glass before, and what did it actually pay?

I thought I won $300 and was already happy, but my wife told me to slow down and check every bonus box again. Coins for $100, lamps for $100, lightning bolts for $100, peaches for $100, plus the bigger matches hiding near the top. $1,000 TOTAL. I almost cashed this out for a fraction of the real amount because the ticket has so many symbols that my brain stopped counting after the first decent prize. Be honest, how many people would have scratched this too fast and accidentally thrown away hundreds of dollars?

I scratched this ticket and thought I was looking at a $100 winner until my wife told me to slow down and check every bonus box again. Diamonds for $100, crowns for $100, picks for $100, lightning bolts for $100, and spades for another $100. $500 TOTAL. I almost missed most of it because the ticket has so much going on that my brain stopped counting after the first match. The cashier looked at it and said these games are designed to make people overlook bonus wins. OVERLOOK BONUS WINS?? How many people scratch too fast and throw away actual money without realizing it?

I am absolutely fuming right now. My wife and I are right in the middle of our huge cross country drive from British Columbia down to Arizona, and I stopped at a gas station to buy a $5 Loteria scratch off ticket. I matched La Luna four times and actually won $80! But when I handed it to the clerk to cash out, he looked me dead in the eye and claimed the ticket was undergoing a localized lunar typographic destabilization because I scratched the foil too aggressively! LOCALIZED LUNAR TYPOGRAPHIC DESTABILIZATION?? Sir, this is a piece of cardboard, not an astronomical anomaly! I have a Master's degree, so I am perfectly capable of recognizing a blatant lottery scam when I see one. He refused to hand over my $80 and told me my aggressive posture was disrupting the barcode scanner matrix. Am I overreacting, or should I call the police for grand larceny over this absolute racket?!

I am absolutely fuming right now. My wife and I are right in the middle of our huge cross country drive from British Columbia down to Arizona, and I stopped at a gas station to buy a scratch off ticket. I actually won $500! But when I handed it to the clerk to cash out, he looked me dead in the eye and claimed the ticket was undergoing a localized holographic foil destabilization because I scratched it with a quarter! LOCALIZED HOLOGRAPHIC FOIL DESTABILIZATION?? Sir, this is a piece of cardboard, not a classified government document! I have a Master's degree, so I am perfectly capable of recognizing a blatant lottery scam when I see one. He refused to give me my money and told me my aggressive posture was disrupting the barcode scanner matrix. Am I overreacting, or should I call the police for grand larceny over this absolute racket?!