A Westmoreland County mother suffering with car trouble and the stress of combining work and family life stopped in a Pennsylvania service station for a drink and left with a $1 million lottery ticket just days before Mother’s Day.
On Friday, Pennsylvania Lottery officials congratulated 32-year-old Beth Dudley on winning the $1 million top prize in the WIN WIN WIN scratch off game.
The winning ticket was sold at Crabtree Gas & Go, a Sunoco station at 226 Roosevelt Way in Salem Township.
Lottery officials announced that the merchant will receive a $5,000 prize for selling the winning ticket.
Dudley said the victory came after a rough day, which began with a flat tire just after dropping her toddler off at daycare on April 21.
“I was actually stressing over car issues,” Dudley told lottery organizers.
Later that day, she stopped for a drink and bought a lotto ticket.
“What’s it going to hurt?” she wondered.
After scratching the ticket, Dudley learned she had won $1 million.
“I wondered, ‘Am I seeing this right?'” “Then I just started crying,” she explained.
Her mother was the first person she phoned, and she was immediately concerned that something had gone wrong because Dudley’s father has stage 4 heart failure.
Dudley later called her husband, who she claimed did not instantly believe the news.
The mother of two stated that she intends to buy a new automobile and invest the remaining proceeds.
WIN WIN WIN is a $10 Pennsylvania Lottery scratch-off game with a top reward of $1 million.
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