Welcome to R-slash Today I F-Duff, where OP sends his wife to claim a winning lottery ticket.

Today I F-Duff by sending my wife to check if a Powerball ticket was a winner.

I have a longstanding habit of buying a lottery ticket for a Powerball whenever it gets over 300

million. Overall, it's a very small amount of money per year, and it's just a small investment

in fun times from my point of view. Recently, the prize was slowly creeping up due to no winners

multiple weeks in a row. It was over a billion dollars last week, and I bought a ticket like usual,

but I got too busy to take it in to check the numbers. Here's where I screwed up. I decided to

give the ticket to my wife to check. Now, she's a sweet lady who's never gambled anything,

so she's not familiar with the process. I sent her to a local supermarket with a machine,

explained how to scan the card and center on her merry way. A little while later,

I get a strange text basically saying, you better be sitting down and then a text saying something

to the effect of, I'm never coming back to this story again. Later, I got the full story.

She scanned the ticket correctly and the machine announced that she was a winner. She got a full

screen graphic and giant words. The works. She freaked out at the prospect of becoming a billionaire

attracting the attention of the entire store. After hyperventilating for a minute or two,

she saw the machine tell her to go to the checkout counter, so she walks out and finds out that she

won two dollars. She was not aware that if you get one or more number in the right place,

then you can win your money back. Anyways, after landing back on Earth abruptly,

she left the store more to fight at her reaction to winning two dollars, and now we need to find

somewhere else to shop. Lol. Hey, Opie, look on the bright side. At least she contacted you.

This woman legitimately thought that she was a billionaire, and her first response was to reach

out to you in love and say, we did it, baby. We've made it. We got more money than we could

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