A Powerball cut in line was a costly one for the next person in line, who let Powerball jackpot winner Gloria Mackenzie keep her place.
As previously reported by The Inquisitr , the Powerball jackpot winner Gloria Mackenzie may have cut in line but she was a wee bit slower to announce her winnings to the world.
The Powerball winner was actually unknown for quite a while even though the Powerball announcement that a $590 million jackpot was going to someone in Zephyrhills, Florida.
The Powerball cut in line was admitted by jackpot winner Gloria Mackenzie when she released a statement saying another woman “was kind enough” to allow her to cut in line when she purchased the winning Powerball ticket:
“While in line at Publix, another lottery player was kind enough to let me go ahead of them in line to purchase the winning quick-pick ticket.”
Mindy Crandell is the name of the women who suffered from the Powerball cut in line, but she has no regrets, saying she hopes the money “truly blesses her family.”
Still, what’s interesting is how the Powerball cut in line was almost prophetic:
“My 10-year-old said, ‘Mom, There’s a lady in front of us.’ I noticed that the lady was there. Didn’t pay a lot of mind to it. The joke was, that’s the lady that’s going to win it. I was like, ‘Yeah right. No one is going to win from little Zephyrhills.’”
The Publix employee at the register noticed the Powerball cut in line, offered to let Mindy Crandell’s family go first, but Mindy turned it down. Even so, Mindy has been very graceful about the whole incident:
“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.”
Since the Powerball cut in line made Gloria Mackenzie a Powerball jackpot winner, do you think she should share some of the wealth with the Crandell family?