Suphanburi province hairdresser adorns her beauty salon with 'lottery wallpaper'

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Hairdresser Adorns Her Beauty Salon With 'Lottery Wallpaper'



SUPHANBURI PROVINCE: -- Owner of a beauty salon in Suphanburi province plastered the walls of her workplace with thousands of lottery tickets, none of them yielding any win, to remind herself and her customers the low chance of winning the prize.

Ms. Wassana "Lek" Indrakaew, 39, the owner of "Lek Beauty" in Mueang district, told our correspondent that she has been posting lottery tickets on the wall of the establishment since 2001.

Initially, she only posted the tickets on the salon′s back door, but the ′lotto wallpaper′ later crept into other spaces and eventually filled up the 4 walls of the 4x4 metre room.

Ms. Wassana said she is a big fan of a lottery. She usually buys around 20 lottery tickets each month, depending on how much money she had on that day, Ms. Wassana added. Ms. Wassana lost count how many tickets she had bought, and estimated that the wallpaper in her salon is composed of about 10,000 pieces of lottery.

Customers and neighbours in the area are highly amused by her idea, turning her salon into some sort of local tourist attraction, drawing many people who have heard about the lottery wallpapers. Many of them took photographs with the wall to show their friends.

As she never won a single prize from these lotteries she had bought, she said, she had the idea to post the tickets on these walls to remind herself and other customers that the chance to become rich overnight by lottery winning is just too slim.

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-- KHAOSOD English 2013-07-20

[lee b]

Its going to take her a long time to look if she has won! And she will have to change it 2 times a month

[GuyL]

Of course, chances to win at the lottery are very slim. But most people (especially in rural parts of Thailand) are delusional and even when they know the odds, they will try their luck anyway because they all think that they are somewhat luckier than anybody else.

In this case, the owner of the beauty salon could have probably saved the money to build a nice little house provided that she did not spend it to buy so many lottery tickets. Will it serve as a lesson to many other Thai people? Alas, I don't think so.

[Salapoo]

Who else was thinking the rest of the title was going to be '.... with Nazi Memorabilia'.

[BlackJack]

if u dont go fishing

u will never catch a fish

[bkk_mike]

If she's bought 10,000 tickets and not won anything, either she's extremely unlucky, or she's not checking the tickets properly as there's at least small wins on more than 1% of tickets. (from the 2 and 3 digit numbers).

[marell]

Interesting idea...it must be illegal.

[Gsxrnz]

Who else was thinking the rest of the title was going to be '.... with Nazi Memorabilia'.

Guilty as charged. That's exactly what I was expecting - pleasantly surprised by the lottery news. I figure it comes to about a million baht.

[KuhnPaen]

She should have gone to Wat Mahabut and prayed to the ghost of Mae Nak. That's where the lottery savvy folks go to bargain with the beyond.

[Songhua]

Who else was thinking the rest of the title was going to be '.... with Nazi Memorabilia'.

I thought 'hair'. But that would've been odd.