Ooh, I never claimed there was any logic to it, jcdmj!
It's mainly about a sort-of psychological block I have about gambling - when I was about 8 years old, my Dad told me a story about one of his Great-Uncles who'd been entrusted [some time in the 1870s] to take the family savings from the Lancashire town in which they lived to Burton-on-Trent, where the money was going to be put into a business run by a different branch of my Dad's family.
Apparently, when the Great-Uncle stopped off somewhere on the way, he was offered the chance to play "Find the lady".
At the end of which, he had to return to Lancashire shame-faced and penniless.
Which is why my Dad had presumably been brainwashed by his parents into never gambling. And, other than on the Pools every week - he once won £149 back in the late 1940s when £149
was £149 - he never did! And why, 60 years on from first being told that story, I'm still brainwashed into never venturing any closer into the world of gambling than throwing £6 Camelot's way each weekend.
So, if logic had had anything to do with it, I'd have asked my old feller why he even did the pools. And yes, I know if I didn't do the three lines on the National Lottery, I could have 3 x £100 punts [or 1 extra 4-hour punt with the Regular who offers 4-hour sessions] a year.
But I guess I'm seduced by the [extremely remote] possibility of one of my 3 lines on the National Lottery coming up with the Jackpot for me. In which case, and trying to get back on-topic
, I wouldn't need to overcome the urge to punt.