Sitting on lotto

It has been a while since I last thought about lotto. I go to KetKai in Cagayan de Oro City and see people lining up to bet on the lottery. Very clearly lotto is not going to be leaving this city anytime soon. I remember when Manny Quisumbing ran for mayor of Cagayan de Oro city on the platform that he would allow the lotto to operate in the city. He lost the election but he was probably the smartest among the three candidates.

That was over 20 years ago and now the city is dotted with lotto outlets, some of which are not doing so brisk a business as the one in the mall.

Still, there is a little idea that keeps nagging me and I have the feeling that this will forever remain an idea never to be tested in the hot, boiling waters of reality. I am beginning to think that this is probably for the best and life will go on until everybody chokes from the pollution and the antibiotics being fed the chickens.

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