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On May 19, 2022 before going home, I decided to stop at this market and play $4 worth of number, which is all I had on me. After pulling up, I sat in the car and wrote down 4 numbers on a neon sticky sheet I had in car. I, entered the store and approached the window where you play numbers. First impression and instinct is a fact. Unfortunately, I didn't follow neither one.
As I approached the window, the Asian male act as if I didn't exist and continued looking at his cell phone. After being patient and placing my neon paper and $4 in the window slot, I said "Hello, I'm ready", which is when he took the paper and money. Unfortunately, I just took the lottery tickets and didn't check them, which is totally my fault. Instead, I just placed them in my wallet.
On May 20, I arrived home at around 3:30pm, after getting settled I decided to check the Md Lottery for 5/19. Afterwards, I went and got my wallet where I placed the tickets and the neon sticky the day before and realized that ticket 9011 wasn't included, which means the store clerk didn't play my number and kept $1or played the number and kept the ticket. There's only one of those reason because I gave him $4 and I wrote down 9011 on the sticky. Ironically, 9011 was written under 1127 and I have the tickets for the other 3 numbers and not for 9011, which came out on 5/20 in the evening.
I don't often play numbers and didn't realize how important it is to double check your lottery tickets for accuracy, which is something I will forever regret because of shady and fraudulent activity at this market.
For me, it's not moreso about the money it's the principle and the fact that the store clerk did an fraudulent act by keeping my $1 or playing my number and withholding the ticket, in hopes that I don't notice it, which I didn't until the next day. I will never go to this store again. I will be contacting the Better Business Bureau and Md Lottery for a check of their machine because I won, not him.