Story highlights Glenda Blackwell was tired of her husband wasting money
"I had to eat my words, but they were worth eating"
(CNN) A North Carolina woman set out to teach her husband a lesson about the lottery. Instead she was the one who got schooled.
Glenda Blackwell of Leicester was tired of her husband wasting money on lottery tickets. On Saturday, he asked her to buy him some Powerball tickets. She bought a $10 Carolina Millions scratch-off ticket instead.
Glenda Blackwell will happily eat her words on how buying lottery tickets is a waste of money.
"I was going to be ugly and buy a scratch off to show him they didn't hit," Blackwell told CNN affiliate WLOS . "Sometimes I get aggravated with him, so I tell him, 'You're just wasting your money.'"
Well maybe she should get aggravated at him more often. That scratch-off ticket she bought out of spite was a $1 million winner.
"I had to eat my words, but they were worth eating," Blackwell. "So, I was very happy."
_Mr-Skeltal_ on August 8th, 2017 at 03:31 UTC »
These stories seem to always be written in a way that sells tickets. I'm sure now we'll have at least a few people buying thousands of dollars worth of tickets because they think they can make it too, if they just put in the effort.
However when you run those online lottery simulators you see just how astronomical the odds are... you have to leave these simulations running for a long, long time to get a win.
ch1yoda on August 8th, 2017 at 00:04 UTC »
She then went on to prove another point by reinvesting the money she won in one million more lottery tickets
Sabuleon on August 8th, 2017 at 00:01 UTC »
Nothing to lose either way with a single ticket purchase. No win? She was right. Win? She has more money now, that's worth being wrong over.