How The Latest Lotto 649 Jackpot Winners Beat The Recession
Now if you haven't already figured out where I am going with the title of this week's blog, you probably need another pot of coffee or three. Because the way to beat the recession is obviously to play and win an enormous Lotto 6/49 jackpot.
Which is precisely what 18 assembly workers in an Ottawa plant - 10 of whom were scheduled to be laid off - did recently, when their lucky Lotto 6/49 numbers yielded a whopping $7 million jackpot, or $400,000 each, split 18 ways.
In a particularly serendipitous twist of fate, the workers found out about their $7 million Lotto 6/49 windfall on the very same day that 10 of their own were issued with "pink slips" from the management of Smart Technologies.
Wow, it's stories like this that keep Canadian lottery fans playing week after week. Because if a handful of factory workers (more than half of whom were about to lose their jobs thanks to the current harsh economic climate) can get lucky, what's to say they themselves won't become the next big Lotto 6/49 jackpot winners, and overcome their own economic or financial issues?
At least, that's what keeps me playing the Canadian lottery week in and week out. Sure, the odds of me winning the jackpot are probably greater than those of the last remaining piece of Skylab falling on my head next week Sunday, but my feeling is that if you're not in it, you can't win it. Like most things in life.
And for a few dollars each week (about the same as the price of a couple of packs of smokes), I figure why couldn't it be me who matches six winning numbers in the next Lotto 6/49 draw (or the next, or the next), and turn my life upside down in the best way overnight?
Of course, some people reading this probably think I'd be better off spending my hard-earned money on 'jellied slugs,' while others would probably advise me to spend more than the price of a couple of boxes of cigarettes on the lottery each week to increase my chances of 'winning the big one.'
The one thing I do know is that I will continue to play Canadian lotteries as long as the recession sucks the way it does; While somebody or a group of people has to win the lottery jackpot sometime (which they do); And while I can buy Lotto 6/49 tickets (and others) quickly and easily over the internet, from the privacy and security of my own home.
For those of you who still haven't yet grasped what I'm trying to say, the answer to this week's headline how the latest Lotto 6/49 jackpot winners beat the recession is that they played the lottery each and every week, and waited for Lady Luck to appear. Which sure enough she did.
 | Posted by Anton Johan at 07:24 on 15 August 2011 |
