"The Lottery"

This story really was not one of my favorites. It may be just the fact that I started thinking about how bad it would be if our lottery system was like that. Millions of American's watch the T.V. every week to see who the unlucky person is that "wins". Then you could have the options like our real lottery has, to get all the rocks thrown at you at once (you wouldn't get as many), or you could just take the full amount of rocks awarded and just get a hand full of them thrown at you every week for the rest of your life... It is just weird to me that people could be so dumb to draw a piece of paper from the "black-box", and how there was not one person there who said "Hey guys... This is out of control". I know it's just a story, but it's hard to read along when things just go downhill from the beginning.