Surprise, Surprise!

A Heartwarming Story

We had a regular customer phone for Saturday Lotto results (as she does regularly) who found that she had chosen 4 numbers last week. She was excited to find that she had won over $50.00.

This would help pay her electricity bill that she was trying to pay off from her pension every fortnight and was quite an exciting win for her. Because she is on oxygen and unable to leave the house, she sent a neighbour down to collect the money on her behalf.

When we ran the ticket for the neighbour to collect, we found that our regular player had made a mistake and stopped checking the ticket when she had enough numbers to win a prize. Instead of 4 numbers, she had 5 numbers plus the supplementary and the winnings had escalated beyond our upper payment limit!

Now the $50.00 prize was over $16,800.00 and would have to be paid directly by cheque! The neighbour became worried about the effects of this good fortune so she took her husband with her to break the news. She thought that he could phone for help while she start CPR if it was too much of a shock for the winner!

Fortunately we received a very excited call soon after the news was broken. The winner had already made plans to pay all her electricty bill and to purchase an oxygen bottle that was portable and would allow her to leave the house for the first time in many months.

Over the years we have had many heartwarming stories after wins that were not large enough to make headline news but have been most significant to our winners.

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Maxine and Peter