Nagging wife, sausage help man win lottery

[BridgeTheGap]

WELLINGTON, New Zealand - A "nagging" wife who pushed her husband to buy a lottery ticket helped scoop the $4.2 million ($7.7 million New Zealand dollar) first prize — with only minutes to spare. The man from New Zealand's biggest city, Auckland, bought his ticket just two minutes before ticket sales closed Saturday night.

"My wife had been nagging me all week to get a ticket, so I when saw the Lotto sign ... I sprinted in to get the ticket before they closed," said the man, who asked not to be identified — normal practice among lottery winners in New Zealand.

"I must have been their last customer of the night," he said, adding that the young married couple had had a "rough" couple of years, reduced to one income after having children.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28120766?GT1=43001

[JVS]

1. Now they can afford a divorce!

:party:

[Fire Walk With Me]

2. I was going to say that- did he even bother to return home?

Edit: They have kids, so likely he did.

[Sanity Claws]

3. Now they can afford to live well together!

Money problems often exacerbate problems in a marriage. Let's hope this infusion of money heals their problems.

[groovedaddy]

4. I won a hundred K in a lottery once. I used to get out or debt and get divorced.

The divorce part was a blessing. Being away from kids was very difficult.