CALGARY- It started off as a day at the tattoo parlour, and ended as one that has changed two lives forever.
On Friday, Canada’s newest multi-millionaires were introduced in Calgary, one week after their $30 million lotto win.
The lucky winner, Darrell Szczerba, was waiting for his tattoo appointment last Saturday, when he decided to quickly run over to a nearby gas station to check his LOTTO MAX ticket. To his shock, it came up the big winner.
“My first thought was, ‘I’ve got to drive home,’” he said. “I went back across the street and cancelled my appointment. I couldn’t sit there with a winning ticket in my pocket.”
Szczerba couldn’t wait to tell his wife, Laurie, but the ringer on her cell phone was off. He finally got to share the happy news when she walked through the door.
“When I realized what he was telling the truth, I just dropped the bag and started jumping up and down and hugging him and screaming,” she remembers. “The bags just stayed there until the next day!”
The happy couple wasted no time quitting their jobs as a carpenter and legal assistant. The parents of two sons plan to buy a bigger house, new truck and do some travelling. Szczerba says he may also splurge on a limited edition truck, to match his motorcycle. He also plans to re-book that tattoo appointment.
The AGLC says Szczerba’s winning ticket was bought at a 7-Eleven in the southwest community of Somerset. This is the biggest jackpot win in Calgary’s history.
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