Waitress lets family member pick scratch-off ticket — and he chooses jackpot winner
An infrequent lottery player won big after a family member reminded her how much fun an occasional scratch-off ticket could be.
The Baltimore County woman said a family member mentioned he was planning to stop on his way home from work to buy lottery tickets and, after noticing she had a $5 bill in her purse, she asked him to buy her one, too, according to a Nov. 25 news release from Maryland lottery officials.
“I told him I didn’t care which game, any would do,” the waitress told lottery officials.
The game he picked out for her was the $5 “Deluxe Crossword” scratch-off, according to the release.
“When I scratched the ticket that night, I was amazed,” she said. “Totally in shock.”
She’d won the game’s top prize of $50,000, according to the release.
She immediately ran to share the news with her family and they passed around the winning ticket, lottery officials said.
“They told me later that when they saw my face, they thought I’d gone crazy,” the woman said. “We all went a little bit crazy.”
The winning ticket was purchased at Carroll Fuel gas station in Baltimore, according to the release.
This story was originally published November 25, 2024 at 4:36 PM with the headline "Waitress lets family member pick scratch-off ticket — and he chooses jackpot winner."
