Husband's cheap Valentine's gift earns wife $100,000
Published in Weird News
(UPI) An Iowa woman said what initially appeared to be a cheap Valentine's Day gift from her husband turned out to be a $100,000 lottery jackpot.
Cynthia Holmes of Boone told Iowa Lottery officials that she was initially unimpressed with her husband's choice of a $10 Casino Riches scratch-off ticket for a Valentine's Day present.
"My husband gave me a gift of a scratch off and I'm like, 'Oh, that's really expensive,'" Holmes joked. I scratch it off. I won $100,000!
Holmes said the win didn't sink in until she scanned the ticket at lottery headquarters in Clive.
"[The machine] went, 'Woo hoo!' And I'm like - my hands started shaking and like butterflies in my stomach," she said. It is still sinking in.
Holmes' husband, Don, said he did not share her disbelief.
"I [saw] the dice. I knew she was a winner," Don Holmes said. I thought it would just be $100 but it turned out to be $100,000.
Holmes said she plans to use the money to pay off her car and her house.
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