The number of zeros kept increasing.
An Upper East Side deli worker sold a $1 million lottery ticket to a mystery woman over the weekend. However, neither of them could believe it and thought she had misread the lottery ticket.
People’s Place Gourmet Deli employee Mene Ghazi told the Post on Thursday that when the woman visited the store on Monday, there were too many zeros on her receipt and her winning lottery ticket was worth $10,000. He said he initially believed it was $100,000, but before he read it correctly, he suspected it was $100,000.
“She asked me, ‘Has anyone hit the jackpot?’ I tell her, ‘No,'” Ghazi, 35, explained.
“She said, ‘Okay, I’ll check your ticket.'” Then she said, “Oh, I got a lot of money, do you know how much?”
“When I saw the receipt, I thought it was $10,000 or $100,000,” Ghazi continued.
“I asked her, ‘How much is this?'” She said, “One million.” she was shocked. She was very shocked. ”
“She asked, ‘Is this real or a dream?'” the store employee recalled, describing the customer as “tall, handsome, quiet, probably about 50 years old. She explained that she was a woman.
The grand total is $1,000,004, which is the second prize ticket associated with the March 9 Powerball drawing.
The convenience store on Second Avenue between East 72nd and East 73rd Streets is now filled with customers looking for a chance to get lucky.
After two drawings held on Monday and Wednesday nights, no one has yet won the top Powerball prize.
The next drawing is scheduled for Saturday and is worth $600 million.
After congratulating Ghazi on his big deli win, Queens resident Sophia Isaac said, “Please make me a winner tomorrow,” referring to Friday’s $792 million Mega Millions drawing. It’s better,” he said.
“My son is telling me to stop playing, but all I need is three dollars and a dream,” she told the Post.
Jeff Saunders, 81, of the Upper East Side, stopped by People’s Place to buy a $2 Mega Million automatic quick pick. When told about his recent $1 million prize, he said: However, we will charge you $200,000. ”
“I’ve been buying lottery tickets for about 50 years,” he said.
But he admitted he didn’t win “at all.”
The deli sold a winning ticket worth $7,500 and another ticket worth $2,000 in January.
Ghazi said he believes the woman who won last weekend has not yet received her cash.
“She told me, ‘Come back and take care of me,'” he said.
“Let’s take a look.”
