Kentucky woman $175K lottery prize at her office gift exchange
A Kentucky woman brought home the best present at her office gift exchange. Lori Janes, from Louisville, won $175,000 after receiving a lottery ticket at her office holiday party, according to a news release from the Kentucky Lottery.
Janes, an office manager and treatment coordinator at Harmon Dental Center, participated in a “white elephant” gift exchange at her office on December 13.
All gifts had to have a value of $25 or less. Another participant “stole” a $25 TJ Maxx gift card Janes had received.
The office manager, a frequent TJ Maxx shopper, was disappointed, according to the release. But per the rules of the gift exchange, she had to choose another gift — and she chose a coworker’s $25 in scratch-off tickets.
“Once it got to me, it was done and mine to keep,” Janes said in the release.
“That’s when everyone was telling me to scratch them off.”
The first ticket won Janes $50. But it was the second ticket that clinched her the big prize: $175,000.
