LEICESTER, N.C. — A North Carolina woman’s attempt to show her husband the lottery is a waste of money backfired in the sweetest possible way.
Glenda Blackwell, 57, bought a $10 Carolina Millions scratch-off ticket Saturday after her husband asked her to buy two Powerball tickets, according to WLOS. Blackwell said she got the Carolina Millions to teach him a lesson about wasting money on the lottery.
“I was going to be ugly and buy a scratch-off to show him they didn’t hit,” Blackwell said. “Sometimes I get aggravated with him, so I tell him, ‘You’re just wasting your money.'”
Instead of losing $10, Blackwell hit the jackpot, winning $1,000,000.
In the end, she never taught her husband a lesson, but it’s a payoff she would take every time.
“I had to eat my words, but they were worth eating,” she said. “So I was very happy.”
Blackwell said she plans to buy a home, help her daughter and put money into her two granddaughters’ college fund.
After taxes, she received a lump sum of $415,503.
