A – Z of Breast Cancer: LOTTERY

After years of stubbornly refusing to play the Lotto I have joined the poor deluded masses who sit home on a Saturday night waiting, dreaming. I didn’t do the lottery on the grounds that the government already got loads of my cash in the form of taxes. Why would I want to give them any more in a daft draw that I had next to no hope of winning? Besides, I reckoned the more money we gave the lottery, the more the government had to spend on weapons and war mongering, and I didn’t want that on my conscience. But now that my future seems precarious (I am on half pay and don’t know when I’ll get back to work) my conscience has shrunk and I feel the need to become an instant millionaire.

When I first heard Jade Goody’s justification for televising her cancer - that she only wanted to pay for her boys’ education, I was sniffy. Hadn’t she heard that primary and secondary education is free in this country? And even if the boys decided to go on to third level education it wouldn’t take several millions to cover the cost. Now I think about my own son’s future and I think, Yup, he will need loads of money and I may not be able to work to provide it. So Jade, I’m sorry and just a little bit jealous that you were able to leave your boys all that dosh. It’s Lotto day today. You never know…

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