A man in Tennessee was stunned to find he had won $1m with a lottery ticket, only to discover he had somehow lost it while running errands in the wake of sharing the news with his fiancee and family.
But, thankfully, the story has a happy ending as Nick Slatten of Sparta, a small town in the eastern part of the state, retraced the steps he had taken throughout the day and eventually found the missing ticket in a parking lot where he had taken his brother to visit an auto store.
The life-changing ticket was lying on the ground near the driver’s side door of another vehicle.
“It’s a million-dollar ticket, and someone stepped right over it,” he said in a statement to NBC News.
Slatten told NBC he and his fiancee will continue to work but that they plan to buy a new house and a car and to invest. The money, he said, will help them live a life with “not a whole lot of worries”.
