The Rittenhouse Review

A Philadelphia Journal of Politics, Finance, Ethics, and Culture


Thursday, May 27, 2004  

OVERHEARD: CENTER CITY PHILADELPHIA
“Winning” the Lottery

A brief conversation between two 40-ish women overheard in a check-cashing storefront in Center City Philadelphia (Don’t ask!), after one woman spent some $15 on scratch-off lottery cards:

Woman #1: Hold on, lemme’ check my scratchies.

Woman #2: Alright.

Woman #1: Nothing. . . . Nothing. . . . Nothing. . . . Nothing. . . . Oooo! Five dollars! I won five dollars! [Woman #1 cashes in her $5 winnings.] Ain’t that somethin’!

Woman #2: Hey, that’s five dollars you didn’t have before.

Woman #1: That’s right!

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