A Midlands man bought what turned out to be a grand-prize winning lottery ticket, but he didn’t know it for days because his wife took the scratch-off game and kept it in her purse before revealing the jackpot, according to South Carolina Education Lottery officials.
When the woman scratched off the ticket, the couple learned they had won a $200,000 prize , officials said in a news release.
The woman said she’s no longer “fussing” at her husband for purchasing lottery tickets, according to the release. From now on, when the man gets a ticket now, “he’ll buy us both one,” the woman said in the release…