Lottery madness

Since Emma apparently does not have anything to say about her first day at work, I thought I would, and she pointed out that I haven't contributed to this blog as much as she has, which is kinda true :P So today is her second day and first shift without me. Don't worry she'll be fine :D If survived the first training days and screwing things up at the till so will she. I believe in her! Anyway the biggest question Ems had at the end of day 1 was: "Why do they (the customers) play so much lottery???? Why???" To our readers who are not familiar with the british lottery system, I'll explain: National Lottery on wed and sat, pound each, Thunderball on wed, fri and sat, pound each, Euromillions on tues and fri, 2 pounds each + lotto hotpicks which are the hardest because you never understand if the customer wants one line with three numbers or three lines etc. So whenever I have to do it I print something out and hope to god it is right :D, then you have +5 on the normal Lottery - they're all on one machine, and when someone comes to you saying: one lucky dip tonight, 2 three number hotpicks, 5 for Friday, then you're like wtf does he want??? especially on the first day, now, after 6 months of working there, I have finally mastered the lottery machine, yay! But wait there's more! There's also the Health Lottery, which comes through a totally different machine and takes ages and since it is not played that often, you tend to forget how to do it properly. Do we have that much lottery options back home?
Then on the machine that Health Lottery is on, called Paypoint, we can also issue mobile phone top-up vouchers, pay bills (here some people have electric keys, yeah I dont know how to explain it better, but its some kind of a token that we put in the machine, and add money to it and apparently the customer goes then home and puts it in his electric meter or whatever :D), so now that I'm finally living on my own, and actually get bills sent home by post, I just go to work and pay them there, no need for the internet bank, seems weird to me to be honest. But hey that's how things are here ;)
So I'll try to get Emma to write her comments on the first two days of how her hands were shaking, how she could not get things to scan and who she did and didn't ID.
Stay tuned!

Jazzz...