Timothy Shearer entered a cigar store in Idaho with the sole intention of buying a hot dog, but decided to play the lottery and ended up with a prize that changed his life.
The man had been living with his partner and his granddaughter of 15 years in a hotel for not being able to pay for a house, and although he liked to play the lottery , I hadn’t done it for a long time to take care of the expenses. However, on that occasion, in the store, he decided to buy a couple of tickets just for fun.
That is how he took two tickets to the Hauser Smoke Shop game.
Shearer lives in the city of Coeur D’Alene, in the state of Idaho.
Shearer checked if his tickets had a prize in the lottery verification machine, but no amount appeared on the screen, although it indicated that he had won a prize.
Thinking the machine was broken, he asked the clerks about the ticket and they told him he had to go to the lottery offices in the city of Boise to claim the prize, because it was a big one.
In the end they told him that he had won $10 thousand dollars, to which Shearerse was elated. She said she plans to use the money to repair her van and move out of the hotel to live somewhere closer to her granddaughter’s school.
“All her old friends are there and I just want to see her happy” Shearer said.
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