Mo and I went out to eat with Justin and Rachel tonight and somehow our conversation turned to one of my biggest pet peeves…fake, gag, birthday/Christmas present lottery tickets. The ones that say you won X amount when you really didn’t. I have an outstanding arrangement that Mo must tell me if anyone is going to give me one of these gifts. I has stated that I will punch ANYONE , in the face, who gives me a fake lotto ticket as a gift. This includes young children who (according to Youtube videos) seem to love to give this as a gift.

It was those videos that really bothered me because most of the victims were blue collar guys who seemed like they really needed it, and you can see them mentally figuring out what they can pay off and how they can take a breath…then they are shown the back of the ticket proving it fake. The worst one (I think it may have been staged) is when a guy gets a fake lotto ticket from his friends for Christmas and (on video camera) admits that he had been recently diagnosed with cancer and that the $250,000 ticket would really help out…obviously the friends felt like dicks.

Justin had the idea of making this a movie. Some friends buy a buddy a fake lottery ticket and he admits t o having a fatal disease (gloom opening) and then the friends scramble to raise the money in wacky ways. Hilarity ensues. I will try to update this tomorrow with some ideas for the movie…

Doug,

Pryor to scratching, please discard the lotto ticket that I enclosed in the x-mas card that the Fink's sent you.

Cheers!