An MTA worker stationed on Staten Island was in disbelief when a New Jersey lottery app informed her she had just won $1 million after playing Powerball last week.
Stacey Fiore, of Barnegat Township, clinched the life-changing prize when she stopped by a Quick Stop in the Garden State town on Nov. 15 and pulled a quick pick for her games, lottery officials said over the weekend.
The MTA supervisor in the Big Apple reportedly joked with her coworkers if she won she wouldn’t be coming into work, but forgot to check the numbers until more than a day later.
“I checked the numbers on Monday on the [Lottery’s phone app],” Fiore said in the NJ Lottery press release. “It said ‘Congratulations. You won a million dollars.’”
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“I checked again and it said again that I won,” she added.
A stunned Fiore then called home so her husband, Greg, who also works for the MTA on Staten Island as a bus operator, could relay the numbers on the ticket back to her to triple-check.