Here in NC we have machines now that we buy our scratch cards out of and also the online tickets.
At one store I go to they have the counter where the slips are kept beside the machine and on the
other side of that a big ice machine that has a big lid on it like those old kind of freezers from long ago
that is waist high that people use to scratch their cards off on....I didn't know what it was until one day
a clerk said excuse me and I moved and she opened it and got a big bag of ice out.
WELL I have left my drivers license 2 times laying on the counter & ice machine and when I called both times someone had
turned them in so now every time I use my license to get a card I put it back in my purse...it's a lot of trouble
but better to know where it is than to get a win on a card and get so excited I walk off and leave it there.
Well yesterday this happened at the same store...I went to my car after buying some groceries and buying
a scratch card and cash 5 tickets...always scratch the card off there and if it loses most of the time I will try
again but this time I won on it and the cash 5 EZ match so I left in the rain and walked
to my car and unzipped my purse and looked for my keys and could not find them!
...ended up taking everything out and they were not there nor in my jacket pocket.
SO I push my cart back into the store with my few groceries back to the lottery
counter and sure enough my car key which has my house key on it was laying on the counter where the slips
are kept...if I had not found them I don't know what I would have done...could not have driven my car (SUV)
nor gotten back in my home...and it's the only car key I have.
I had it out because at first I thought I was leaving after buying my groceries but that power of the lottery
just drew me to the machine and I already had my keys in my hand so just absentmindedly laid them down
on the counter....going to have to be more careful if not no telling what I will leave there next and the funny
thing is it's only at that store that I leave stuff never anywhere else so I have not lost my mind yet I don't think...it's at that particular Harris Teeter store.
So just for fun has anyone else left anything at the lottery machine and what was it and what were the
circumstances?...thanks ahead of time for telling me...please do because I don't want to feel too stupid
for starting this thread!