Sometimes, it's better to be lucky than good. Good fortune shone on a Michigan man who accidentally bought a winning lottery ticket that he vowed to avoid.
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The 68-year-old, who requested to remain anonymous, went into a gas station in South Lyon to play some Fast Cash games.
"Whenever I stop to get gas and the Fast Cash jackpot is over $700,000, I'll buy a few tickets," he said in a Michigan Lottery blog post.
He said that he typically doesn't have a preference on which Fast Cash tickets he purchases, "but lately I've been saying any except the Detroit Lions game. Because I hadn't been having luck with it."
During his recent stop at the gas station, the Michigan man forgot to request the exclusion of the Detroit Lions game. The minor mental lapse turned into a million-dollar decision.
"I forgot to tell the cashier that this time, and the Detroit Lions game is what he printed for me," the man explained.
It wasn't until the next day that he realized he scored big.
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"The next morning when I looked over the ticket. And saw I'd won the jackpot. I stopped my wife as she was walking by, handed her the ticket, and said: 'You're not going to believe this!'
"Once she saw what I'd won, she started crying. It was an exciting and emotional day for us," the man said.
He plans to share his newfound wealth with his family.
"All I've been thinking since winning is how glad I am that I forgot to tell the cashier not to give me the Detroit Lions game!" he said.
The Michigan man is not the first lottery winner to score the prized ticket under unusual circumstances.
In March, Sean Hayes, of Oxford, used numbers favored by his late father to win a lottery worth £1,000,000, or roughly $1,338,460, according to a news release by the National Lottery.
He found the winning numbers in a booklet left to him by his father.
