Thankful: A chocolate milk run turns into a lottery win
How much chocolate milk can you buy with $1,000,000?
A father who went out on a chocolate milk run for his kids didn't know that his whole life would change...
"Dennis Willoughby of North Chesterfield went to a local 7-Eleven to buy chocolate milk for his kids when he decided to pick up a scratch-off lottery ticket." (CNN)
This was proof that those random decisions are sometimes the very things that mean the most. The ticket was the platinum jackpot and he won $1,000,000 (R16-million).
Willoughby is one of two winners who have won this top-prize in this game. What are the odds? "The odds of winning it are 1 in 1,632,000, lottery officials said." (CNN)
We're certain that this is the kind of story that many people use as a motivation to buy lottery scratch cards, and to even take the lottery. But we think that as much as you can create your own luck, sometimes it's all about timing, and you cannot plan these things.
"The lucky father was given the choice of taking the full $1 million prize in annual payments over 30 years or a one-time cash payment of $640,205 before taxes. He chose the latter." (CNN)
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