This company Secret Santa really paid off for Lori Janes from the US state of Kentucky. The office manager of a dental office has literally hit the jackpot. She got two scratch cards and made a lot of money. $175,000! She even got a voucher for a clothing store.
Secret Christmas gifts worth $25 were handed out at the office party. First she got a voucher. But in the course of the evening, the gnome gift was ‘stolen’ by a colleague. That was part of the game. It was possible to exchange gifts or take them away from others.
And so Janes was left empty-handed. So she ended up choosing two $10 Kentucky Lottery scratch cards. A good decision, as it soon turned out. The first ticket brought her $50. When she scratched off the second ticket, she could hardly believe it. All 15 fields showed a victory. She had hit the jackpot. $175,000!
“We Thought She Wasn’t Looking Good”
“Everyone went completely crazy,” Janes told the American broadcaster NewsChannel5. Some would have checked the lottery in disbelief and checked if they had actually cracked the jackpot. “To be sure.”
She immediately called her husband and their two children to tell them about the mega profit. They couldn’t believe it either. Her husband’s response: “We thought she didn’t look well.” But then he would have heard his colleagues partying in the background and realized it wasn’t a joke.
She wants to use the money to pay off her daughter’s student loan and the family’s two cars. It is unknown how the person reacted when the lottery tickets were snatched while Secret Santa. (Hey)