LOTTERY TICKET BLUES: Winner knocked out of his wheelchair and loses $175,000
/A wheelchair street vendor in Singapore sells lottery tickets. Read here about another wheelchair user in Illinois who wasn't so lucky.
Here's the full testimonial from one of my Silverites about how he missed out on a cool US$175,000.00.
But there's some good news in this story, too...
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Of course the bad news is that he didn't get to play.
But the good news is that Larry really won... the prize was sitting there waiting for him to play it.
You and I have it easy compared to Larry. All we have to do is make the effort.
Let me tell you what I had to do a while back to buy my tickets...
I had just driven back from upcountry - a 6 hour trip there and back. Since the tickets weren't in my car, I dropped off my wife, fed the cat, picked up the tickets, and went back another 10 minutes up the road to buy them.
And since it was draw night, I only just got in a few minutes before they closed ticket sales.
So whatever your circumstance, stretch it and get those tickets bought! It's really worth it.
Just to give you some incentive, here's a story from Lester who also didn't buy, and lost $1 million: