Two Time Loser

I made a horrible mistake that could have cost me millions! I bought a lottery ticket over the weekend for a drawing that I thought already happened. I checked the lottery website...my number was not a winner...I proceeded to tear up the ticket and throw it into the trash. Flashforward...I realized the ticket was for TONIGHT, and not for last Friday when I didn't even have the ticket! Damn it! Into the trash to tape the ticket back together, although I'm not sure they'll accept that if it's a winner, although it might make an interesting human interest story on the news. What to do...what to do...I had to go and buy the SAME ticket again because you KNOW that number would come out if I didn't and they wouldn't accept my ripped to little pieces ticket shreds as the winner. {sigh} it's the price you pay for wanting to be a millionaire!

UPDATE: So here it is...my two tickets with the same number for the same lottery, which I would have had to split with myself had the number actually come up. It's a day later and I didn't win obviously or I'd be writing a different article today.