Powerball Fever: 8 Unusual Tales About the Lottery Game That’s Sweeping the Nation

2. It doesn’t always pay to be nice?

In Dunedin, FL in 2003, a courteous woman let an elderly customer go ahead of her in line at Publix. Both women purchased “quick pick” Powerball tickets.

Guess who won? The older woman snagged the gargantuan $590,000,000 jackpot.

The woman who lost holds no ill will toward the winner (who has never given her a dime, to our knowledge, but has thanked her publicly) and said “It could have been us, but things happen. Sometimes it’s better to be patient than right. I knew we were teaching our daughter the right thing.”