Clark: 4 stages of Powerball Mania

SR columnist Doug Clark takes us through the 4 Stages of Powerball Mania:

LEMMING STAGE – “This where the line ends?” asks a middle-aged woman who smiles knowingly as she walks up to where I’m standing in the South Hill Safeway store. I mumble yes and look at my feet. I’m not unsociable, just embarrassed to be seen waiting in line to buy into the latest version of the world’s largest Powerball jackpot. It just seems, I don’t know, so desperate. I rarely buy lottery tickets. But like every other American citizen, I’ve been seduced by Powerball hype and hoo-haw. Had two tickets for last Saturday’s drawing for the $930 million nobody won. That provoked another frenzy of ticket-buying that is pushing the prize to Trump-sized ego proportions. Can’t quit now. More here.

Question: Which stage of Powerball Mania are you in?