Saturday, September 29, 2012

Jugando loteria./ Playing the lottery.

Ya tengo bastante tiempo que no me juego la lotería un domingo por ejemplo, a pesar de que hubo un tiempo que la compraba de forma casi que regular, kino, lotto, super lotto, extra, super cuatro etc. al menos una vez a la semana. Ahora bien, si de todas esas veces que la compre supongamos que un 30% de las veces no busque los ganadores después del sorteo, o simplemente bote el ticket sin ni siquiera notarlo. Será que me gane la lotería en algún momento y todavía no he vista nada de “esos reales”?. Hoy en día no me gusta comprar lotería por que la cantidad de ceros que tienes el boleto ganador me dice que esa plata no me va alcanzar para nada. El premio más grande en Venezuela que yo tenga conocimiento es de 7 mil millones de BsF. Con eso te da para comprarte un buen apartamento, el carro de tus sueños, pagar deudas, ahorrar un poco, las vacaciones de tu vida, la acción de un buen club y listo… Bueno, aunque viéndolo bien como si alcanza … Señor, tiene Kino Tachira? Si, para mañana…

I do have a hell lot of time that I do not get a lottery ticket on a Sunday just for argument sake. In the past, I used to buy any sort of it at least once a week. Now, I would like to make the following analsys. Let´s suppose that thirty percent of the time that I bought it, I did not crossed check the results or I just throw it in the bin. There is a chance out there that I won it but I never realised so. Where it´s that “fricking” money?. I do not like buying it these days since the jackpot does not seems to give enough money away so I can´t be arse to stop in the shop to get a ticket just for few pounds. As far as I am concern the biggest price in the lottery market these days is 48.000.000 Bolivares Fuertes (which is about £42.000 in the Venezuelan currency) [1]. By the time, you could have bought with that money a modest apartment, a modest family car, paying some debts, saving some money, having a nice holiday, becoming a member of a nice club, and that was it… hhmm!, thinking thoroughly it´s not a bad idea getting that ticket on the next weekend… (days later in the nearest shop), excuse me, can I have a lucky dip please?.


By the year 2012, when I wrote the text (please refer to book in Spanish) the biggest price was about 7.000.000 Bs.F. Approximately £6.000 today.



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