If you know any, then you likely know that many constant lottery players have a strange method to their madness. However, one woman from North Carolina decided to simply follow her “lucky feeling” and ended up winning a whopping $4 million! Read on to discover one of the most incredible stories of the year…
Random Lucky Day
Like all of us have, North Carolina resident Ivory Thompson simply felt lucky one day. While she’s not an avid lottery player, a feeling just sprung up inside her to pick up a scratch-off ticker last week! “I just randomly have days where I feel lucky,” Thompson told the North Carolina Education Lottery. “I feel like my life could change that day. So, I get them here and there whenever I’m feeling lucky, and that day I was.”
So, on her stroll home, Thompson stopped at Alamance Church Food Mart in Greensboro and picked up a ticket. Of course, she had no idea that the $20 ticket would change her life forever. Back at home, she started to scratch off the card and discovered something surprising: she had won $4 million! At first, Thompson could not believe what her eyes beheld…
“I had my mom and my sister with me and I scratched it before we went upstairs and then we just started crying,” she told lottery officials. “It was so overwhelming.” Now, the young woman has plenty of fantastic plans for her millions of winnings!
Serious Plans
Like all other lotteries, Thompson needed to choose between yearly payments of $200,000 a year, for 20 years, or a lump sum of $2.4 million. The woman didn’t want to go through the teasing payments annually and choose to take it all home instead. The lucky feeling scored her $1,698,006 after counting and paying the taxes. As you might imagine, Thompson has some pretty big plans with the money!
First, Thompson wants to spend it both in her personal life and family. First of all, she can finally start her real estate career and learn more about it as she dreamed of before. The rest will go to her son. “I just want to make this money make money so I can set up a future for my son,” Thompson said. “Because that’s just all I can think about. How I’ve been granted an opportunity to create such a good future for him.” Perhaps, later she can think of other options, like trading or stocks, or even pick up another hobby!
While it’s a happy day for her, there are still prizes waiting for their owners in the game. Launched in June, Millionaire Bucks has two $4 million prizes and five $100,000 prizes in stock for future lucky lottery winners.