Cashier buys NC lottery ticket during break and wins big. ‘Things happen for a reason’
A 27-year-old cashier is getting used to being a lottery winner after a “strong feeling” led her to buy a ticket at her job.
Jacksonville resident Christina Montgomery was on a break from her job at a grocery store when “something was just telling me to play it …things happen for a reason,” she said, according to a news release from the North Carolina lottery.
Montgomery bought a Premier Cash ticket from the lottery vending machine at the store, lottery officials said.
She started to scratch the ticket and at first saw two zeroes, she told lottery officials. Then, the zeroes kept coming.
She won $100,000 and collected her after-tax check of $71,016 on April. 22, lottery officials said.
“I was in shock,” Montgomery told lottery officials. “Reality is still hitting me right now.”
Montgomery said that she would use the prize to get a new car and possibly save money to start a family, according to lottery officials.
I’m still thinking it was a dream,” Montgomery said.
