Interesting? economics lesson in the lottery line

[Lottery Larry]

I'm in line picking up lottery tickets for my pool, while a woman is asking if she should take the cash or annuity option (rookie)

The man right behind her was emphatically saying "cash- if you take the annunity you won't have anything left, but if you take the ton of cash you'll still have a ton of cash at the end" (this is for the $192M jackpot)

Of course, the same guy gets up to the window and is upset that the vendor is out of the scratch-off "$5K a week for life" tickets.... :P