It’s one of those ‘I-can’t-believe-it-happened-to-me’ things!
Ivy Read won $5 million on LOTTO 6/49!
Read was taking her dog Lady to the groomers when she first stopped to buy the winning LOTTO 6/49 ticket.
“We were just taking her for a trim that day,” she said. “I always buy a Triple Pack.”
A few days later, she went to the store to buy a slushie for her friend and thought she’d check her ticket. She couldn’t register the win amount at first.
“I thought it was $50!” she laughed. “I didn’t realize until I took it up to the cashier [that it was actually $5 million]!”
“When he scanned it, he went, ‘Oh, you’re a big winner! You’re a big winner!’” she continued. “I just said, ‘Are you kidding me?!’”
Read said she ran right home to tell her friend.
“I was so excited, I had to come straight home,” she explained. “[My friend] just looked at me and goes, ‘Does that mean you’re rich?’”
“We laughed after because he asked where his slushie was. I forgot to get him one!”
Read said she is excited to pay off the mortgage, complete some renovations on the house, and share with her children.
“It still hasn’t sunk in,” she admitted at her prize claim interview. “It’s one of those ‘I-can’t-believe-it-happened-to-me’ things!”
Read purchased her winning LOTTO 6/49 ticket from Whitecap Trail Gas at 100 Sports Centre Rd. in Whitecap. She won her prize on the September 6 LOTTO 6/49 Classic Draw with the selection: 12, 25, 26, 38, 39, and 41.