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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: libertybele on January 15, 2022, 01:35:56 am
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I often buy lottery tickets for stocking stuffers. There is no way I would demand the ticket back if someone won some money. The ticket was given to the cousin, the cousin should get the $50,000! In fact, I too would be elated if one of my lottery tickets that I gifted was a winner!
Man sparks massive family debate after gifting a $50,000 lottery ticket for Christmas: ‘You’re not giving it away’
A man’s lottery ticket stocking stuffer is driving a wedge in his marriage.
He shared the incident on Reddit’s “Am I the A******?” forum. He got his cousin a lottery ticket as a gift. To their surprise, the cousin won $50,000. But the Reddit poster’s wife doesn’t think the cousin should be allowed to keep the money.
“Had a belated Christmas gathering last week with my extended family,” he wrote. “I’ve always bought scratch-off lottery tickets for all the adults. This year my 23-year-old cousin goes nuts. He holds his ticket up and claims that he just hit it for the max jackpot: $50,000. I was elated.
“He was screaming, and his mom was actually in tears, and the whole room was excited. It was literally one of the top 10 experiences of my life.
“I feel my phone vibrate in my pocket … my wife has sent me a text message that says, ‘Come out to the car.’ She told me there is no way that we are giving my cousin $50,000, then starts fussing at me about buying the lotto tickets to begin with.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/man-sparks-massive-family-debate-203737295.html
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This is black and white. No gray area whatsoever. The wife is dead wrong.
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This is black and white. No gray area whatsoever. The wife is dead wrong.
My thinking as well. A gift is a gift period.
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I too put lotto tickets in every ones stocking...but I tell them[running joke] that I get 10% of any winnings....of course I never collect..lol
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YUP. Ownership had already changed hands.
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Oh I know... prior to the gifting, the wife could scratch em all off, and thereby decide which to gift where.
Yeah. That'll fix it. :silly:
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Oh I know... prior to the gifting, the wife could scratch em all off, and thereby decide which to gift where.
Yeah. That'll fix it. :silly:
Yep, there you go! :rolling: