Natalie from NoVa

This is a letter I received from my dear friend Natalie who lives in the wretched state of Virginia. Enclosed in this letter were two Virginia scratch tickets! How exciting! Getting my mail is starting to be fun again- usually its just filled with crap mail or unpaid bills. I really liked the last part of this letter "p.s. even if you win a dollar you better split those earnings with me." I can literally see and hear those words coming out of Natalie's mouth. That's the deal with this mailing me scratch tickets from other states (yes there should be 2 on their way from California thank you Conor and Tess) if I win anything, I mail back the ticket and split the winnings with the buyer. Yes Natalie if I win a dollar you will be obligated to send me 50 cents in the mail. In other words, YOU better split those earnings with ME.

This is the first ticket in Natalie's gift. It is a one dollar scratcher called 7 come 11 which I find hilarious in itself. Welp, unfortunately 7 didn't come and neither did 11. Maybe they just weren't in the mood.

On to Money Tree. Here you are required to uncover acorns in order to win any cash. My money tree had a rose, a lemon, a banana, a bundle of grapes, a bell (didn't know you could grow a bell), an apple, a pineapple, ice cream (?!), a crown, and a cherry. Not one single acorn. Then I scratched the bonus spot where I was hoping to find a squirrel. What did I get? Fire. WTF.

Thanks Nat for the effort but I'm not surprised that Virginia let us down. I don't think I won a single scratch ticket in my 8 months living there. Maybe DC or Maryland has better luck.