{"id":1630,"date":"2021-06-02T21:18:27","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T21:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-583903-1890774.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=1630"},"modified":"2021-09-02T21:51:52","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T01:51:52","slug":"convenience-store-clerk-returns-womans-1-million-lottery-ticket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/2021\/06\/02\/convenience-store-clerk-returns-womans-1-million-lottery-ticket\/","title":{"rendered":"Convenience Store Clerk Returns Woman\u2019s $1 Million Lottery Ticket"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It sounds like the kind of hypothetical question you might debate among friends: If you found a winning, $1 million scratch ticket, would you try to find its original owner? Or would you keep the money for yourself?<\/p>\n

A convenience store clerk in Massachusetts recently had the chance to answer that question for real. Abhi Shah told ABC News<\/strong><\/a> that he was going through discarded tickets one night when he discovered that one of those tickets had an unscratched number. It turned out the ticket was a winner, to the tune of $1 million.<\/p>\n

Think, just for a second, about how easy it would have been to claim that ticket for yourself. But while that must have crossed Shah\u2019s mind, he knew exactly who had discarded the ticket: Lea Rose Fiega, who is a regular at his parents\u2019 convenience store.<\/p>\n

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Lea Rose Fiega threw out a $1 million lottery ticket, thinking she had lost. Photo Credit: Massachusetts State Lottery<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\u201cI was in a hurry, on lunch break, and just scratched it real quick,\u201d Fiega explained. \u201cAnd it didn\u2019t look like a winner, so I handed it over to them to throw away.\u201d<\/p>\n

When Shah discovered the ticket 10 days later, he went straight to Fiega\u2019s office and told her to come back to the store. \u201cSo I went over there and that’s when they told me. I was in total disbelief. I cried, I hugged them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fiega is now $1 million richer. And as for Shah: his family\u2019s store gets a $10,000 bonus from the state lottery commission for selling the winning ticket. On top of that, Fiega kicked in a little bonus of her own. \u201cI mean, who does that?\u201d she asked ABC. \u201cThey\u2019re great people. I am beyond blessed.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  It sounds like the kind of hypothetical question you might debate among friends: If you found a winning, $1 million scratch ticket, would you try to find its original owner? Or would you keep the money for yourself? A convenience store clerk in Massachusetts recently had the chance to answer that question for real. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1653,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1630"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3439,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630\/revisions\/3439"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}