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“I want whatever she wants,” said Darlington Lottery Winner on Wife’s Plans

7/26/2016 10:39:09 AM

COLUMBIA, SC (July 26, 2016) –Save Mart 4 on E. Palmetto St. in Florence to buy a lottery ticket.

He got back in the car a richer man.

“Don’t tell me,” his wife said, when she saw the look on his face. “Let me see the ticket.”

Delighted, she slipped the Mighty Jumbo Bucks scratch-off worth $300,000 in her purse.

“We are going to take a vacation,” she told lottery officials when the couple cashed in the winning ticket. “I’m thinking the beach.”

“I want whatever she wants,” said the husband.

Five top prizes of $300,000 remain in the $10 Mighty Jumbo Bucks game, at odds of 1 in 750,000.

For selling the claimed ticket, Save Mart 4 in Florence received a commission of $3,000.

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