My future bonsai trees are still alive! Miraculously, I have not killed them.

I thoroughly hate selling lottery tickets. Things have gotten ugly over the last few weeks, with the ticket checkers not working and also the price going up yesterday, I have been sworn at rather more than I like. Today a sweet little old lady told me I could "kiss her butt" when I told her that the 6/49 had gone up to two dollars a ticket. I had no idea how to respond to that, so I just stood there and stared at her...