I won the Lottery!!!

Ok,,,I've always been a big fan of shopping thrift stores, but this time it really paid off.  This past February, I bought a pair of Levi Jeans that were a perfect fit and priced at only $3.99.  I took them home and laundered them, and as I was putting them on the next morning, I reached in to the right side pocket to 'straighten' it out.  I pulled out what I thought was a price tag, and it turned out to  be a tiny folded up bill.  My first thought was that it was a dollar, but as I unfolded it, discovered it was a TWENTY DOLLAR BILL!!


I decided to hang on to that tiny one-inch square of currency and keep it in my car until I could decide what to do with it.  Several times I found myself low on cash in my pocketbook to grab a quick soda or drive thru meal, and I refused to allow myself to use that $20.  This past Monday happened to be 07/11/11.  I thought this sounded like the perfect day to buy a lottery ticket.  The only time I have EVER spent money on the lottery was to buy a couple of scratch-off tickets. I handed over the tiny square to the proprietor's wife who happened to be operating the cash register, and told her to just 'pick out some lottery tickets' for me.  Her husband, the store manager, told her what to pick for me, and she handed over 4 tickets ($5 each) to me.  I made them both 'touch' the tickets for 'good luck'.  On Thursday, I remembered the tickets and decided to go online to check the numbers.  I figured out the website and pulled up the games she had picked, and the first line of the first ticket had the same numbers that were on the website.  I wasn't sure I was looking at it correctly so I punched in my ticket numbers again to confirm  Sure enough, I had 4 out of the 5 numbers and ended up winning $1656.00!!!  I took my ticket to the lottery office the very next day to just double check that I was right and the precious little lady behind the window, confirmed it.  She said, 'Yep,,,you WON!!


They printed out my check (along with a W2 form, Ick!!) and handed it over along with a pretty cool T-shirt.

So,,Like I've always said.  It pays to shop at thrift stores!!!!