My Dad Bought a Lotto Ticket!

My sister rang me this morning from work. She told me that Dad had left a garbled message on her answerphone about Lotto. She wanted to know if I had gone halves in a ticket with him and he had called the wrong sister to see if he was a millionaire. I told her no, not me! So we discussed the possibility that he was senile and had bought some imaginary lotto tickets with his imaginary Lotto tickets with his imaginary daughters. Since she was at work I told her that I had to go and walk my little black pot-scrubber and when I got home I would call the old man and report back to her regarding his senilty level. Here is what happened:


I rang John.

What he wanted to know is what did he need on his own ticket to win Lotto.
He did not thonk he bought a ticket with one of us. (A good start, no resthome this week!)

He bought a power ball ticket and forgot what you need to win because he had not purchased a lotto ticket for a very long time.

Now remember, he bought a POWER BALL TICKET.

He checked his ticket.

He got three numbers and the bonus number! Woo Hoo! Rejoice!!!!!

Three numbers plus the bonus = division six!!! 25 big ones! YAY!!!!!!

But he said: "No, no, no NO!" "I got $54!!!!!!!"

I said: "How do you figure that?" I said: "For sure, 3 numbers and the bonus is division six and 25 big ones, i have it here in front of me at my lotto on the internet"

"NOOOOOOOPPPAAHHH!" "I got $54!"

"I don't get it?" "How did you get $54?"

"I bought a Powerball ticket." "It says division six on Powerball tickets $54!"

"A-HA-HA-HA-HA!!!!!" "Did you get the Powerball number as well then?"

"What do you mean?" "I got a Powerball ticket!"

"Yes I know." "To get the $54 you need to have three numbers + bonus + POWERBALL NUMBER!!!!!" :Buying a ticket does not automatically upgrade your prize you know, you have to have the matching number!" "So look on your ticket and you will see a column that says Powerball, if it has a number 10 in it then you have $54!"

"Oh I see." (pause) "Oh yea well I knew that, huh-ha." "Yea I know that of course."

"So did you get the Powerball number?"

"Ahhhhhhhhhhh, No." "Ahhhhhhhh, well I don't think so, I will have to check again."

(Trys not to laugh) "Yea well if you didn't then you have division six $25.00."

"Oh, OK, never mind." "What do I need to do to buy one of the other Wednesday ones??........."


[Boring rave about Big Wednesday by me here.]

"By the way, Mr. Fee just chased a stray cat off the stairs!" "Man he is fierce!" "A really ferocious boy!................."

A-hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!