A Cheap Hobby?

Is it luck in love or in gambling?

I believe I don't have either, or who knows, maybe I actually do.

Yesterday I thought: let me play the lottery for a change. After a lot of hassle, I had submitted some tickets with final numbers, but I couldn't pay for them. The reason is the fact that I don't have a Dutch bank account, so they can't check if I am 18+ years old.

Although the State Lottery has existed for 300 years, gambling is not allowed for anyone under 18, and even those who do buy tickets or gamble see on the same site—I don't know how many different tickets—everywhere it says not to gamble, not to buy any balls; that all sounds very contradictory. So I won't be able to pay unless I send my passport with some numbers removed or at least made invisible. The lottery is supposed to be today, so that can of course never be achieved. One good sign: not to do it after all, otherwise everything would be going against me Hahaha. Today I asked a friend to give me two final numbers for a lottery ticket. You can't choose all the digits yourself, only the last two. Interestingly, they are the same two for her as the ones I had specified, so that's not getting us anywhere either.

It seems we have this quite often, that we say or think the same thing. The other two options that were given didn't win, so it's just as well that you weren't bought butter with them. We'll see if anything is purchased before April 27th. That's King's Day, so it's not like that will be celebrated with some extra pocket money; it wouldn't be crazy, certainly not if it's a million and tax-free. The state has surely earned enough already for the prizes to be paid out netto. Lottery tickets can also be bought at Primera shop, by the way. You do have to choose from what is available, though. To what extent ID is requested then is unclear. I'll see by then.

I noticed the lottery has a wallet in the account. Prizes will be transferred to this wallet. If one keeps winning the lottery paus itself with this wallet, anonymous to the bank and this way it makes a cheap hobby (as long as you win), till the addiction starts.

_{Prompt: see title
10-4-2026
The photo was taken by me}