Woman gets ‘really weak,’ nearly collapses after learning of big Maryland lottery win
As part of her morning routine, a Maryland woman stopped at a convenience store to buy some coffee and scratch-off tickets on her way into the office.
She browsed for some tickets, and one instant ticket’s color caught her eye, Maryland Lottery officials said in a June 17 news release.
“I think it might have been the purple, that’s a favorite,” the woman told lottery officials of why she picked a $10 Jumbo Cash ticket.
After the secretary scratched her ticket at the Wawa convenience store in Aberdeen, she nearly collapsed. She won the game’s top prize of $250,000, according to lottery officials.
“My legs all of a sudden got really weak,” she told lottery officials. “I wasn’t sure I’d be able to stay on my feet.”
She called her husband, “apologizing for the early hour,” as he works nights and sleeps in the mornings.
“After I was able to get through to him just how much we had won, he didn’t mind me waking him,” the woman said, per the release.
The woman told lottery officials her win is still “difficult to comprehend.”
“I’ve always had luck with scratch tickets, but not big luck,” the woman said. “I’d daydream about a win like this, but never expected it to happen.”
Aberdeen is about a 35-mile drive northwest from Baltimore.
This story was originally published June 17, 2024 at 2:45 PM with the headline "Woman gets ‘really weak,’ nearly collapses after learning of big Maryland lottery win."
