Mom excited over big lottery win worries daughter. ‘Thought she was in a car accident’
A Maryland mother called her daughter over the phone, her voice shaking with excitement as she tried to share life-changing news.
Her daughter, though, grew worried, Maryland Lottery officials said in an Oct. 11 news release.
“I thought she was in a car accident,” the daughter told lottery officials.
As her mother spoke, the daughter soon realized it wasn’t tragic news; instead, her mother’s “excitement was driven by happiness,” lottery officials said.
The Elkridge woman, a custodian for more than two decades, had just learned she won a massive prize on her $30 200X the Cash scratch-off ticket, lottery officials said.
The mother quickly snapped a photo of her lottery ticket and texted it to her daughter, lottery officials said.
However, her daughter doesn’t play lottery games and had no inkling what the photo showed, lottery officials said.
So, her mother explained: “the top left box on the instant ticket with the number 35 and the amount $2,000,000 in it matched the number 35 in the winning numbers row,” winning her $2 million, according to officials.
“They were both screaming with delight,” lottery officials said.
The woman, a regular lottery player who moved to the country 25 years ago, plans to use her winnings to make retirement plans with her husband, lottery officials said.
The couple will “take their time” planning out their finances and aims to retire in two years, lottery officials said.
Elkridge is about a 15-mile drive southwest from Baltimore.
