It was a Christmas gift that is worth waiting.
A Maryland mother and son have enjoyed some surprise festive leftovers this month after discovering a winning lottery ticket lost for the festive season.
The unidentified son went to his mother’s house to move some furniture when a handful of Maryland lottery scratches arrived, part of a larger stash that the matriarch had bought as storage storage for their adult children.
“I said:” Hello mom, I have some scratches here. Can I scratch them? “” He told Maryland’s lottery.
Of course, she agreed, but there was a condition: if any ticket turned out to be a winner, they would divide the prize.
The son took the tickets home and then scratched them with his wife.
Of the five tickets, the majority were rags, but three had small victories: $ 6, $ 15 and a double of luck of $ 5.
But once the family inspected the rules of the game closer, they learned that they had won much more.
The double of the fate of the holidays costs $ 5 with 15 opportunities to win, according to the lottery. In the end, the ticket was worth $ 50,000.
“That really happened?” The wife remembered having thought incredulously.
At first, they thought it could be a joke, so the son quickly called his mother to ask if it was a joke.
But it wasn’t a joke. The prize was confirmed when they visited the lottery headquarters to collect the profits.
He wants to remain in anonymity, they decided to name their team, “we will divide it” in honor of the mother’s insistence that they divide any gain uniformly.
With half of the $ 50,000 in his hand, the son has great plans: he is putting the money to save a house and pay some better … to his mother.
“Then, she will end up getting more,” he laughed.
However, Mom plans to share herinnings with her other children, spreading late Christmas joy.
The winning ticket was sold at Walther Liquors in Nottingham, and for selling a first -price ticket, Baltimore County retailer will also get a $ 500 bonus from the lottery.
The history of the family is a friendly reminder for all who bought a double lucky ticket last year: the last date of the game is November 3.
