A North Carolina woman who forgot to buy soap while shopping decided to buy a lottery ticket when she walked back into the store.
Doralee Preston-Price cleaned up big time, winning $200,000 on a holiday scratch-off ticket, WRAL reported.
“I figured it would be cheaper to go to the Dollar Tree nearby (to get the soap),” she said. “They were closed, so instead I went back to Food Lion.”
While driving home after shopping, the Fayetteville resident realized she didn’t buy soap, the television station reported.
Preston-Price did not immediately scratch off the winning ticket she bought Monday, leaving it in her purse for a few days. She said that Wednesday. She was folding laundry and watching a movie when she remembered that she had the scratch-offs and a $5 Mega Bucks ticket, the television station reported.
"I scratched the first ticket and didn't win anything. I scratched this ticket and got through the first row but went back to watching the movie because it was a dance scene," Preston-Price told the Fayetteville Observer. "I almost threw the ticket away, but then something just said, 'Look back down.'"
Preston-Price did, and called her mother to confirm that she had the winning numbers. Assured that the ticket was a winner, Preston-Price and her mother drove to lottery headquarters in Raleigh to validate the ticket, WRAL reported.
After taxes, Preston-Price will take home $141,003, the television station reported.
She said she planned to use some of her winnings to go on a Disney cruise with her husband and son.
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