55-year-old Nikolina Pitruzella from Farmingville,new York, state of new York, won in scratch lottery for life payoutat $ 1,000 weekly.
This was reported on the official website of the new York lottery.
Nikolina bought his winning ticket when standing in the queue at the kiosk selling Newspapers at Penn Station. By the way, in the queue, it was to check other tickets that she had (spoiler: they somehow just winning was not).
Due to the fact that the queue was large, and the time the woman had enough, she skipped ahead of him a man. Who would have thought that this small gesture of kindness would lead to this result.
«While I was waiting, I noticed a vending machine selling lottery tickets and decided: okay, if I have two dollars, I’ll play,» says Nikolina.
The first ticket was not a winner. «I thought, I can’t even «discourage» its two dollars, when I started to wash the coating on the second ticket,» continued the winner.
According to her, when she saw that he had won, started to tremble. «It was a shock.»
The main prize in this lottery guarantees to pay at least a million dollars within twenty years – or 52 thousand annually, and chose Nikolina.
The lucky girl says that her immediate plans – a trip to Vegas with friends for the concert of J. Lo and probably a new car.
The winning ticket was purchased at the kiosk Hudson News at 2 Penn Plaza in Manhattan.
Source: nylottery.ny.gov
