This woman won $ 5 million after buying the wrong lottery ticket
The morality of history: when life gives you a ticket, take it.
Last week, the New Jersey resident Oksana Zaharov, 46, was in a Manhattan convenience store when the cashier made a small mistake that would change his life forever.
She asked for a $ 1 scratket, but instead the clerk handed him $ 10Lift Ticket for the New York lottery.
"When the clerk tense me the wrong ticket, I felt bad, so I decided to continue going there and buy," Zaharovtold the official site of the NY lottery. "I actually used the ticket as a bookmark for a few weeks before deciding to scratch it."
When she made it scratch, however, the mother of two learned that she was the lucky lucky of theLift price, which guarantees aminimum Payment of $ 5 million.
She could not literally believe it.
"I never win anything," she says. "I was sure the ticket was wrong. It was not before I brought it to the office I knew it was real."
As the price name indicates, Zaharov is now defined for life. Its Grand Prize will be given in 19 annual payments of $ 260,000 ($ 172,068 net) and an additional payment of $ 60,000 ($ 39,708 net) for the next 20 years. After that, she will continue to receive an annual net payment of $ 172,068 for the rest of her life.
Zaharov stated that she would like to celebrate her luck by taking her family traveling to the Bahamas, but she is the most excited that earnings mean that her children will have "college education without loans".
One wonders what you can learn from the incredible history of Zaharov. According to the Lottery website, Zaharov is the "88th actor of the New York lottery to claim a price totaling $ 1,000,000 or more this year", they would probably say that the morality of the story is that you should buy more Lottery tickets.
But, really, Zaharov can create its new prosperity to its attitude "go with the flow". If she had thrown an adjustment on the scratch ticket, she would probably be in the same place now that she was before. So maybe morality is the following: when life gives you a ticket, even if it is not the one you wanted, go ahead, go ahead. And for more news news, read whyEveryone goes torson naked like Kylo Ren on Instagram.
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