Janet Bain stopped at a convenience store to buy a soda and ended up winning $100,000 from a scratch-off lottery ticket. Photo courtesy of the Virginia Lottery
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A Virginia woman stopped at a convenience store to buy a soda and ended up winning $100,000 from a scratch-off lottery ticket.
Janet Bain of Cumberland told Virginia Lottery officials she stopped at the Hampden Sydney Exxon on Farmville Road in Farmville to buy a beverage and ended up buying three scratch-off lottery tickets along with her soda. Advertisement
One of the tickets, a Wild Tens game, turned out to be a $100,000 winner.
“I was in shock and awe,” Bain recalled. “I thought I wasn’t seeing it correctly!”
Bain said she has big plans for her winnings.
“It’s going to be a great Christmas,” she said.
