What would you do if.....

babymoo

I'd never trust my brother to do anything for me tbh. How did she only find out a few weeks ago? Surely she would have been watching the lottery or checked them the following day to see if she had won? All this is irrelevant as bro didn't put it on but i'd be wanting to see his lottery account personally.

sulkisu

Also, he may only be 19 but he works full-time as a forklift driver and still lives at home, so 'money was tight' in his case probably means a few extra pints with his mates.

sulkisu

babymoo wrote: »

I'd never trust my brother to do anything for me tbh. How did she only find out a few weeks ago? Surely she would have been watching the lottery or checked them the following day to see if she had won?

Not necessarily. I don't check my numbers regularly.

SailorSam

A similar story .... years ago i use to collect pools coupons and take them and the cash to the Main collector on the Friday night. One Saturday morning i was putting my bag away and found although i'd taken the money but there was a batch of coupons still in the bag.
I was frantically watching the results come out at 5pm preying nobody had 8 drawers.

fluffnutter

sulkisu wrote: »

your brother was supposed to buy your lottery ticket, spent the money instead, and your numbers came up (not the jackpot, but five numbers which would have paid £3k+)?

A lady at our gym has unfortunately found herself in this position. She has been playing the lottery for a few years and in January, while in hospital, asked her brother to buy her tickets for her. He sometimes plays online and so simply added her numbers to his playslip. They then agreed that he would play the same numbers for her every week, and she has been giving him the money to do so - £10.p.w. A few weeks ago she got five numbers - and thought she had won £3k, but brother then confessed (or claimed as she is not sure if he did play them or not), that he had not been buying the tickets - money was tight and he has been spending it on himself. She is understandably livid, and he doesn't seem to think it's a big deal - ''it's not as if she won the jackpot''.

He has offered to give her the £100 or so that she has given to him to buy the tickets over the past few months, and apparently her family all seem to think that she should be grateful for that! She's in her 20's and he is 19.

I think I would kill him. What would you do?

If it were that important, I wouldn't trust anyone else to buy the ticket for me. This is always a possibility, to be frank, and it was her choice to rely on her brother. Plus I think it's madness that she's been paying him for a least 10 weeks with absolutely no evidence of the ticket.

He needs to repay her the money that he spent on himself. But she can't expect him to pay her the jackpot she might have won!

Hard lesson learnt - do your own chores in future.

LandyAndy

claire16c wrote: »

Who knows if he had bought the ticket, whether those numbers would have come up anyway!?

Anyway that is why you should never use the same numbers.

He should definitely give her the money back though!!

Please tell me you don't actually believe that.:rotfl:

fluffnutter

claire16c wrote: »

Who knows if he had bought the ticket, whether those numbers would have come up anyway!?

Hmm, the numbers that come up aren't dependent on whether or not a particular individual buys a ticket! It doesn't matter whether he bought the ticket or not, them's the numbers!

BugglyB

fluffnutter wrote: »

If it were that important, I wouldn't trust anyone else to buy the ticket for me. This is always a possibility, to be frank, and it was her choice to rely on her brother. Plus I think it's madness that she's been paying him for a least 10 weeks with absolutely no evidence of the ticket.

He needs to repay her the money that he spent on himself. But she can't expect him to pay her the jackpot she might have won!

Hard lesson learnt - do your own chores in future.

I dont think its unreasonable to ask a sibling to do a chore for you while you're in hospital and expect it to be done.

fluffnutter

BugglyB wrote: »

I dont think its unreasonable to ask a sibling to do a chore for you while you're in hospital and expect it to be done.

No, it's not unreasonable. However... "They then agreed that he would play the same numbers for her every week". Her choice to delegate this to her brother - she could have, one assumes, taken back responsibility for this.

Mado

I'd be wondering why someone who is 19 and for who money is tight keeps on spending money on lottery tickets.

The odds are that you will never recoup the money you spend!!!!

On the question I would say she should accept the £100 gratefully; you can't live in a "what if" world. It's happened (or failed to happen) and can't be changed.