Lottery player ignores naysayers and wins huge CA prize. ‘Now they know it’s possible’
A loyal California lottery player didn’t let the comments of naysayers deter her.
“People would always say, ‘I don’t know why you keep playing. You’re not going to win anything,’” Annette Lopez said, according to a Sept. 19 California Lottery news release.
Pushing the skeptical comments aside, Lopez spent $10 on a Power 10’s scratch-off ticket while she was shopping at a Merced grocery store in May, she told lottery officials.
“It was special because not only was it my sister’s birthday, but it was also Mother’s Day weekend,” Lopez said in the release. “I went to the store to get stuff for Mother’s Day and decided to play.”
Upon scratching her ticket, Lopez wasn’t sure it was a winner.
“I had to get my glasses,” she said. “When I looked at it again, I started tripping out.”
Lopez won $1 million, according to lottery officials.
“It was the best Mother’s Day,” she said.
And as for those naysayers?
“Now they know it’s possible,” Lopez told lottery officials.
This story was originally published September 24, 2024 at 11:52 AM with the headline "Lottery player ignores naysayers and wins huge CA prize. ‘Now they know it’s possible’."
