What would you do if you found out you won a $5 million lottery prize? For Maurice Williams, a Washington DC-area school bus driver, the answer was simple – he went about his work day.
Williams was on his way to work when he stopped at a 7-Eleven store in Hyattsville, Maryland, to cash in a $50 prize he had previously won on the same game, the $5,000,000 LUXE game. He used the winnings to purchase another ticket and sat in his car to play, according to the Maryland Lottery, but he almost didn’t notice the fact that he had won the $5 million prize.
“I didn’t notice I had a matching number at first, until I scanned it,” Williams told the Maryland Lottery. “It’s crazy because the matching number was 59 and I just turned 59 the other day.”
When Williams scanned his ticket, it showed he won the game’s top prize…