Office Lotto Pool

[dr.strangelove]

We are in an ongoing office Lotto Pool. We put in $2 a week. We win something every now and then. If its over $2-3 per person, we cash out. If less, we just use to to play for the next week or two without any contribution. Anyway, my secretary just did the calculations. In the three years we have been doing this, we have spent ~$13,000 on Lotto with nothing to really show for it (we have won over $100 once). We average about 40 people per week, $2 per week. We started in March 2001.

I thought Lotto money was somehow supposed to help schools. I figure my group has paid one NYC summer school teacher, there must be more idiots like us giving money to the state gambling fund. I don't understand how the NYC school system is in trouble.