A Pennsylvania owner of a pharmacy gave $20 lottery tickets to his relatives for Christmas, later on discovering that one of those tickets won the $1M lottery.
Fred DePasquale, owner of The Medicine Shoppe, said that he bought 35 tickets from his own store, giving away 20 to relatives, five to customers, and 10 to himself. It was later on that one of the tickets, given to an in-law, won the $1 million prize.
The AP said that DePasquale, who was to receive $5,000 from the Pennsylvania Lottery Commission because he purchased the ticket from his store, was not eager to ask for the ticket back, and was not upset over the irony of the situation.
He said that it would be like giving a person a shirt as a Christmas present, only to ask to wear it on New Year's Eve.
"It was a $20 ticket when I gave it away - not a $1 million one," said DePasquale.
KUTV.com furthered, saying that the ticket was given to a couple to whose child DePasquale and his wife are godparents.
"They'll remember us," noted DePasquale.
