The Christmas Eve lottery miracle

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A Kentucky autoworker is lucky he held on to the US$ 128 Million Powerball ticket he bought on Christmas Eve during some last-minute shopping — after all, he bought it by mistake.

Rob Anderson, 39, said the winning ticket was a misprint that he decided to keep. He wanted to buy $1 lottery tickets for three people, but the clerk misunderstood and ran the $3 Quick Pick on one ticket. The clerk asked him if he wanted to keep the ticket. “Yeah, I got a couple extra dollars,” Anderson said, and he bought three more tickets to give as gifts.
When he arrived at home, he tossed the ticket on his dresser and didn’t think about it until the Sunday morning after the drawing. Rob checked the winning numbers and knew they weren’t any of the ones he usually picked.  That’s when he remembered the $3 ticket on his nightstand. When I finally realized all of the numbers matched, I could only think of one thing:  to yell to my wife – “Oh damn, I think we’ve hit the lottery!”
In the eleven days since the drawing, Rob has taken the time to meet with an attorney to decide how best to move forward. “It’s really important to me that we stay grounded through this process. I’d thought in the past about what I’d do if this ever happened to us, but the odds just seemed so long that I never thought it would occur.”
The couple, who work at a plant building seats for Toyotas, said they were hesitant to go public about the winnings.
“We’re really grounded people,” Rob Anderson said. “My wife taught me well, so to speak, to hang on to that dollar and see how far it gets you. We’ll still clip coupons and still look for the clearance rack.”
He said they would like to go back to school. “I guess finance might be a good major to have,” Rob laughed.
The couple said they haven’t decided if they’ll return to work and whether they’ll take a lump sum payment, which would be worth about US$ 63 Million.