Husband feared bad news when wife called crying. But it was a big Maryland lottery win
A Maryland husband and wife usually wait to buy lottery tickets at a specific store.
But, as they shopped at a 7-Eleven in Middle River, they decided to change things up “at the last minute,” Maryland Lottery officials said in a Dec. 4 news release
“I wasn’t going to buy anything at first,” the wife told lottery officials. “But, I had a few extra dollars so I went ahead and bought some quick-pick games out of the machine.”
After leaving the store, the couple didn’t check the tickets straight away like they normally do.
“I was so tired that night, I just fell asleep without looking at them,” the wife told lottery officials.
Instead, she waited until the morning of Monday, Dec. 2, to check her tickets, lottery officials said.
When she scanned her $1 Pick 5 quick-pick ticket using the lottery app on her phone, she was “stunned,” the Maryland Lottery said.
The couple won the game’s top prize of $50,000.
“I was hysterical, crying and laughing at the same time,” the woman told lottery officials. “I could hardly talk when I called my husband at work to tell him the news.”
Initially, while speaking to his wife on the phone, he “thought something bad had happened,” the husband told lottery officials.
Eventually, he learned the news his wife had to share was “fantastic,” the Maryland Lottery said.
The woman credits her stroke of luck to her father, who recently died, lottery officials said.
The woman told lottery officials she plans to use her winnings to help her family and “to make the holidays extra special for her grandchildren.”
Middle River is about a 10-mile drive northeast from Baltimore.
This story was originally published December 4, 2024 at 3:16 PM with the headline "Husband feared bad news when wife called crying. But it was a big Maryland lottery win."
