A woman playing Triple Red 777 scratcher tickets purchased in Long Beach told a neighbor things weren’t going well, California Lottery officials said.
“I had scratched my five-dollar ones, and I told her ‘I’m not winning!’” Julie Bass said, according to a Tuesday, May 6, news release by the lottery. “She says, ‘Oh Miss Julie, you have two more back there.’”
Bass scratched off a winning ticket, but at first thought she’d won only a free ticket, then a $1,000 prize, she told lottery officials…