So picture this – you (and a group of co-workers) buy a Powerball ticket and amazingly all the numbers come up correct.
This isn’t a gag ticket or anything like that – it’s the real deal.
So what do you do? Quit your job as a waiter and run out of the restaurant laughing all the way to the bank.
That’s exactly what one New Jersey man did recently, but the only problem was he had a winning Powerball ticket – for the drawing earlier in the week.
Yes, that’s right. The group from the New Jersey based restaurant had all the correct numbers, but for the drawing held just days before.
According to NBC New York, staff at Grissini, an Italian restaurant in Englewood Cliffs, N.J., purchased Powerball tickets for last Saturday’s drawing for an office pool, when the jackpot was an only slightly less impressive sum of $900 million. The staff gathered around as one worker read off the winning numbers — 2, 11, 47, 62, 63, 17 — erupting into screams of joy when it was a perfect match for their ticket.
One even reportedly quit his job after realizing he was about to be a multimillionaire. But what the poor employees didn’t realize was that they in fact were referencing the winning numbers from Wednesday’s $528 million drawing, for which no winning tickets were sold.
Talk about insult to injury.
