A Grovedale man who won $1.4 million over the weekend was looking forward to quitting his job, he told lotto officials after the unexpected windfall.
“I hate my job so I can’t wait to quit it, but my wife loves what she does so she’ll keep working,” he said.
The man was one of 14 division one winners in a national TattsLotto draw, who each took home $1,428,571.
“I’m still in a bit of shock and disbelief, to be honest!” he laughed, when a lotto official phoned on Monday morning.
“It feels so surreal. It’s just brilliant!”
The man made a last-minute decision to buy the ticket, he revealed.
“It’s a bit of a funny story really. I was out at the shops on Saturday and decided on the spur of the moment to put a ticket on.
“I hadn’t mentioned the last-minute decision to my wife so on Sunday I said to her ‘right, I’m going to check my lotto ticket to see if I don’t have to go to work on Monday’.
He checked online where he saw the good news.
“I called out to her to get a second set of eyes on it and after she saw it too we were both screaming!”
As well as telling the boss he no longer planned to come into the office, he revealed he had other plans for his win.
“I think we’ll pay off the mortgage and then do some renovations to the house,” he said
“We might look at getting an investment property too. I might use this time to study something new but for the next little while I think I’ll just be a house husband.”
The thrilled winner, who wished to remain anonymous, purchased his entry at Lotto & Post, Grovedale.
The ticket was the first division one entry Josephine McCann had sold in nine years running the business, she said.
“In fact the shop has been here for nearly 40 years and we don’t believe there has been a prize this big won in all this time.
“As soon as I heard the news I text the whole team to let them know that we’ve sold a winner.”
