From the New York Daily News: An 84-year-old widow claimed the largest Powerball jackpot in U.S. history on Wednesday — but somewhere a courteous stranger is kicking himself for letting her cut in line to buy the winning ticket.
Gloria Mackenzie of Zephyrhills, Fla., emerged from seclusion to collect the record $590.5 million prize, then immediately went into hiding without uttering a word.
The silver-haired great-grandmother — wearing shades, sunglasses, a pink shirt and white sneakers at lottery headquarters in Tallahassee — instead issued a written statement revealing the luck that brought about her windfall.
“While in line, another lottery player was kind enough to let me go ahead of them in line to purchase the winning Quick Pick ticket,” Mackenzie revealed in her statement.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/florida-woman-84-claims-historic-590-million-powerball-jackpot-article-1.1364075#ixzz2VP9qGKsi
For the rest of the person's life, the person is going to be wondering what might have been.
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