We WON! We WON! Or did we........????

I have a little obsession with scratch-off lottery tickets.  We never had the lottery until about two years ago, but I used to love and pick up a few in Missouri and Kansas when we traveled.  Now that we finally have a lottery in Arkansas, I like playing the scratch-off tickets from time to time.  Generally, I take ten dollars of my Flea market money and buy some tickets.  Last week I bout $10.00 worth of tickets and had this one in the mix.

That's one HUNDRED bucks, baby!  $90.00 profit - not bad!

The numbers have to add up to either 7, 11 or 21. I won on all six sections.

So, today I decided to buy $10.00 more with part of my winnings.  I brought them home and let The Bean scratch off a few.  It's illegal, but if no one sees, what the heck.  :)  He scratched off one and said 2 + 8 +1  "That's 11" he said. "Well, scratch it off, what did you win?" I asked

He scratched it off and was very, very quiet.  He just sat there holding it.  Finally he handed it to me.  

$21,000.00

We looked at each other, counting on our fingers to make sure that 2 + 8 + 1 = 11.

Homeschoooling at it's best.

2 + 8 + 1 = 11

It does!  It does!

We were in disbelief.  It couldn't be.  Then........we believed it.  We won!  We won!  In my mind I was on the phone calling my Mom, calling my Dad, calling The Breadman.  Woo-hoo!  Twenty One GRAND, Baby!

As I  cleaned up the scratch off silver stuff on the rest of the card so we could go get our TWENTY ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS, I scratched off a "2".

2 + 8 + 12 = We didn't win twenty one grand.

Poor kid got all embarrassed thinking I was mad at him.  Or disappointed.  Heck, we only "thought" we had struck it rich for about thirty seconds.  

But, they sure were thirty SWEET seconds!

*Sigh.*

**We did "win" $15.00, so I guess we'll try it again.**

((Fingers crossed))