So the prize money has mushroomed as each jackpot rolled over into the new game, said Cathy Doyle Johnston, a spokeswoman for the California Lottery. Winnings may be taken in annual payments over a 26-year period or in a lump sum that cuts the pot roughly in half. In Kentfield, the owners of Colonial Liquors, where a SuperLotto jackpot was won several months ago, were already feeling the fever. Some people think lightning doesn't strike twice, but people always end up buying tickets from us - it has definitely increased our business,'' said Nivedida Singh Parmar, who works at the store, which is owned by her husband's family. Wednesday is the mad rush.
Money is a false god, a pseudo-confidence.
But San Francisco psychologist Paul Good cautions that this may be a good time to look beyond the elusive pot of gold and check our underlying motives for entering the lottery. Good, who treats compulsive gamblers and is concerned about the rise in day trading, which he considers white-collar gambling, says our culture is too highly focused on money. The symbol of winning the lottery is really a symbol of self-esteem for the ticket buyer, that this is going to fill up a hole in them that they have been unable to fill themselves, and that they will be a bigger, better person after winning,'' Good said. Money is a false god, a pseudo-confidence. In San Francisco, Don Kertzman bought a SuperLotto ticket at the Sugar Bowl Bakery on Balboa Street.