I have never bought a lottery ticket. I guess I have never felt that lucky. I have noticed though that most people that win the lottery have a story like the woman who was down to her last $10 and needed to feed her family so she went into the convenience store to purchase some mac and cheese and decided to spend $1 to buy a lottery ticket and won the Mega Million jackpot. See, she had a story!
We’ve all seen those stories about groups of people who routinely buy lottery tickets together, only to have one member of the pack fail to do so the week they strike it rich.
Now something similar has happened again — in Spain.
Since 1993, Joan R. Ginther has hit the lotto jackpot four times, to the tune of $2 million, $3 million, $5.4 million and $10 million.
The chances of this happening are one in 18 septillion. For a point of reference, there are about one septillion grains of sand on earth.
Having a sorted, organized bag post-cleaning is a major bonus in itself, but a woman in Georgia has given incentive to cluttered bag owners everywhere after she found a lottery ticket worth $190k stashed at the bottom of hers.
Rhonda Williams, a 55-year-old Fairburn resident, told reporters last week that she found the Fantasy 5 ticket at the very bottom of her purse after she decided to clean it out on a whim. Turns out, she'd picked the winning numbers from a January 17 drawing.
You know that someone is watching out for you when you lose your job and shortly after that you win big in the lottery ! This is exactly what happened to Joel Torres.
