Want a ‘Kwikie’? New name for lottery ticket sparks concern in Maine

[Sherman A1]

Convenience-store owners in Maine are concerned that the state lottery wants to rebrand its scratch-off lottery tickets as "Kwikies."

“That’s going to be real uncomfortable for my girls behind the register to have guys come in and say, ‘Hey, give me a Kwikie,’” David Welch, owner of Village Market in Fairfield, Me., told the Bangor Daily News after receiving a letter from the Maine State Lottery informing him of the plan.

“It’s highly inappropriate,” Kaylee Constable, one of Welch's employees, added. “[Customers] come in and joke around with me and say, ‘Can I get a Kwikie?’ I’m only 19 years old, and I have 40- and 50-year-old men saying sexual remarks to me.”

The newspaper provided some helpful context: "In slang terms, a quickie is a short sexual encounter."

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/kwikie-quickie-lottery-scratch-off-maine-155155788.html

[NYC_SKP]

1. Every day, right around noon....

I like to grab a quickie!

[winter is coming]

2. ...

[Warren DeMontague]

3. Think of the poor man at Burger King who has to spend all day doling out his Whopper.

[siligut]

4. Is Gerry Reid really that obtuse?

But state lottery officials say the origin of the new name has nothing to do with sex.
“The benefit of buying this ticket is that it’s quick, easy and fun,” Gerry Reid, director of the Maine Bureau of Alcoholic Beverages and Lottery Operations, told the paper. “That’s what an instant ticket is.”

Let's hope these idiots don't get their way.

[dipsydoodle]

5. You're getting as bad as us in Europe.

[Jenoch]

6. Sure, the term is sexual slang, but in this case

it's also just stupid. Some idiot at an ad agency came up this idea figuring it would get shot down and dang, the lottery director in Maine chose this lame marketing idea out of the bunch offered.

[DAVEDCHICAGO]

7. Not as bad as Kum & Go gas station chains throughout the Midwest....

LOL

[lpbk2713]

8. Hats off to David Welch for coming to the defense of his employees.

Obviously he doesn't share the State Lottery's sentiment that convenience store employees are the
lowest form of life in the work force and not worthy of being regarded as if they were actually human.