Should I buy a lottery ticket?

Yesterday I decided to join the local library as my reading has become so much part of my free time now I would need a loan from the World Bank, the IMF and the European Emergency Fund to sustain my purchases of books.  I resist seeking a Government Loan or any thoughts of going begging bowl to the Bank Of England for any "quantitative easing" as we are clearly nearly as broke as Iceland at present. 

So, it was off to the Library instead.  What a simple few steps it was in that all they wanted was two items of identification, a sample f blood, a sample of DNA and my shoe size.  Sorry I grossly exaggerate here and I apologise unreservedly for my crass remarks.  The joining process was in reality truly simple with only the two items of identification necessary.

Armed with my new library card, I can now borrow books from any library in West Sussex and return my books to any other library in West Sussex also.  My joke to the young lady that I thought this a great idea now that I could take out  a book in Chichester and take it back to Horsham, just for the walk went down like a lead balloon.    I am no Jack Dee it would seem so I will leave my "stand up" routine at home from now on as I should have learned some time ago that these throw away "jokes" do not always work.  Take for example my attempt to buy a new refill for my Cross rolling ball pen.   I went in to the branch of Sussex Stationers in Chichester and asked, "could I have a cross refill please, rather than an angry one".  There followed one of those tumble-weed moments as the assistant simple gazed through or over the top of my head.  My joke and I had died on our feet.  However, she was unable to offer me the refill she said as she only had "Rolling" refills not "Cross" - I gave up and went to Smiths!

Anyway, back to the Lottery or was it the Library?  OK, I have joined the library and picked up my colourful glossy leaflets telling me about fines, DVD rental and all the other stuff that you can get or do at the library and as I walked across the road reading there was a loud SPLAT!! I found my leaflets and my hand covered in a large reddish, very wet and sticky bird dropping, right  slap bag in the middle of my leaflet. 

Well here we are back at where I started.  Should I buy that lottery ticket then?