Husband’s snack run during family gathering turns into lucky Maryland lottery win
An impromptu family gathering turned into a celebration recently after a lucky $10 Maryland lottery scratch-off ticket.
Alvaro Guevara-Mejia, 27, told Maryland lottery officials he was at a family gathering Friday, Oct. 28, when he ran out to grab extra snacks, according to an Oct. 31 news release.
“My whole family was together that Friday,” Guevara-Mejia told officials. “All of our schedules just worked out, which is unusual. We weren’t celebrating anything particular, just enjoying being together.”
A daily lottery player, Guevara-Mejia usually stops to grab a ticket on his way home from his job as a construction worker, he said. When he got to Brightseat Liquors in Landover for snacks, he remembered he had a winning ticket from earlier that day, so he decided to cash it.
As he cashed his ticket, he noticed that his favorite kind of ticket, a Money Rush scratch-off was available, so he snagged a ticket and got to scratching, officials said.
“I thought at first it was a $500 win, which is a big deal for us. But when I was cashing it in, the clerk and I realized that it was $50,000. Neither of us could believe it,” Guevara-Mejia said.
With his lucky ticket in hand, Guevara-Mejia went back home to his family and announced his prize, officials said. When his wife saw the prize, her hands started shaking.
“We’ve been saving for a house, and this puts us way ahead of where we expected,” she told officials.
Landover is about 10 miles east of Washington, D.C.
This story was originally published November 1, 2022 at 2:30 PM with the headline "Husband’s snack run during family gathering turns into lucky Maryland lottery win."
