All in a day's work

In my job, I often come across oddities that will never ever be printed for general public consumption.

Example #1 - We have just passed the core weeks of Spring Break in Florida. At the peak of the season, a couple of us went to a local convenience store for a cup of coffee. But none of the coffee or soda machine stations had any cups. ZERO!
The clerk asked what size cup we needed and handed us over the cups. She explained that they had to keep them out of general public reach because the Spring Breaker visitors will take a cup, walk to the back corner of the store, open a beer, pour it into the cup, then pay for it as if it were soda.
I must be totally out of touch to comprehend that not only does one person do this, but enough people to require special storage for the cups.

Example #2 - Every now and again, we get a notice that someone in our area hit the lottery. If the jackpot is big enough, we'll do a story. The bigger the prize, the bigger the story.
Anyway, a colleague called up a lottery winner for a story. The adult son answered the phone and knew nothing about the lottery winnings. Conversation ended.
A few hours later, my colleague reaches the lottery winner who was LIVID that the newspaper had called. He and his wife had been apparently trying to keep the jackpot secret from their son.
Screaming on the phone, he explained that his son is a crackhead and would probably end up going on the worst drug binge, now knowing that his parents had hit the lottery.

You can't make this stuff up.