WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP, Pa. (KDKA) – A dinner at a sports bar turned into a life-changing night for a single mother in Pennsylvania.
It’s all thanks to her children who convinced her to buy a lottery scratch-off ticket.
Britnee Boot, 31, was out for dinner with her three children after baseball practice when they begged her to buy some scratch-off tickets.
“My kids egged me on, and somehow we got the lucky ones,” she said.
Boot said as she was scratching away — she thought she was seeing things.
“I jumped up and was like, ‘Oh, my gosh … this is not right,‘” she said. “I called the waitress over and she was like, ‘You just won a million dollars.‘”
Boot indeed turned a $20 ticket into a $1 million winner.
The mother of three said she tries to do everything for her kids, who are 9, 11, and 13.
And they have now asked her if they can get a new house with their own bedrooms.
“I’m going to invest a lot of it,” Boot said. “I will also get my kids the house that they want so they can have their rooms.”
Boot said she will also be buying something special for other family members with plans on continuing to work.
She just hopes the unexpected jackpot will give her kids a better future.
“I am going to continue to work. I’m going to put a lot of it away, and I like my job a little too much, I guess,” Boot said.
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