A Charlotte woman says her lack of patience helped her win 100k lottery! They say that patience is a virtue, but in this North Carolina woman's case, being impatient led to a big win! WSOC reported Debra Ross was at a Charlotte Publix supermarket and wanted to buy a lotto scratch-off ticket, but she didn’t want to wait in the line at the service counter. So the 61-year-old network engineer decided to skip the line and grab the ticket from the lotto vending machine instead.
Ross was shocked when the $25 Spectacular Riches ticket she bought turned out to be a $100-thousand winner. About the timing of her lucky purchase on a Friday, she says, "That was a good Friday on Good Friday."
Last month, Ross collected her prize at North Carolina Lottery headquarters. After all the taxes, she took home over $70-thousand, and says, "I am very, very happy. Happy and smiling." She plans on using her winnings to pay some bills and put the remainder in savings.
Have you bought a lottery ticket lately? If so you might want to dig threw the drawer, your car, or your purse and try to locate it. It could be worth a pretty penny. According to the NC Education Lottery a winning ticket was purchased in the Nov. 7 drawing. You may not remember but this is the same drawing where a California man won a world record $2.04 billion Powerball jackpot. So there were a lot of tickets purchased for this particular drawing. And that $1 Million lottery ticket is set to expire this Sunday, May 7th.
The winning numbers are: 10-33-41-47-56-10
