Photocopied Lottery Tickets chapter 2

Arguing Rationally

Lucy walked to the door of the copy shop, took a deep breath, and began to carefully recall the situation from the time she entered the door until the lottery ticket was lost. Suddenly, a small detail popped up: Before the young boss made the copy, he took a piece of paper from the connection between the base of the copier and the ground and shook the dust off it. There was something wrong with this action! Because during her rummaging, Lucy found that there was paper on the copier’s paper feeder, and she had checked each piece of paper. The young boss must have swapped the lottery ticket at this stage. At this time, some other details also slowly popped up: After hearing that Lucy wanted to copy the lottery ticket, the young boss kept one hand in his trouser pocket, and he used the other hand to take the paper and shake the dust. It was only when making the copy that he used both hands. Right, the young boss must have pretended to take the paper and secretly hidden the winning lottery ticket in the gap between the base of the copier and the ground. When shaking the dust, he put another lottery ticket from his trouser pocket into the copier to make a copy.

Thinking of this, Lucy was extremely excited. She immediately turned around and walked to the copier, bent down, and reached out. Sure enough, she grabbed a lottery ticket. She took it out and saw that the numbers were exactly hers! The five million dollars was recovered! But before Lucy could celebrate, the young boss snatched the lottery ticket from her: “Why are you rummaging through other people’s things everywhere? This is mine!” Lucy shouted: “You scoundrel! You stole this from me!” The on – looking crowd was talking about all sorts of things, and Lucy’s voice was drowned out.

At this time, a police car roared to the door of the copy shop. It turned out that Lucy had called the “911” police hotline long ago. Lucy quickly stopped the leading police officer and told him the whole story. Seeing the police, the young boss started to lose his nerve. He said to Lucy with red eyes: “Ma’am, you often buy lottery tickets, so you know the rules of lottery tickets. They are unregistered and non – refundable. Whoever has it, it belongs to them. Even if you call the police or take it to court, you won’t win!”

At this time, the police officer said: “I’ll handle your matter. Both of you calm down. Young man, you tell me first. Why do you say this lottery ticket is yours?” The young boss seemed confident. He said: “Officer, in our lottery business, we go to check out our peers every once in a while. Yesterday, I visited about thirty lottery shops in the whole city. I bought a lottery ticket at each place, and the numbers were all randomly chosen. I didn’t expect one of them to win. I hid this winning lottery ticket under the copier, and I just threw the others away casually. I didn’t expect to meet this female scoundrel today…” The police officer stopped him and asked again: “Do you have anything else to say about this lottery ticket?” The young boss signaled that he didn’t. The police officer asked the young boss: “Who knows about your winning?” The young boss: “Only my wife knows.” Then he glanced at Lucy, suddenly realized something, and immediately changed his words: “Oh, no, no. Because I was so excited yesterday, maybe many people know about it.” The police officer nodded and said: “Now, please let this lady tell us why this lottery ticket is hers.”