People have been sharing tales of extraordinary good fortune and these 19 will have you nipping out for a scratch card
10.
‘I found £400 on the floor in a white envelope behind my local shops when I was 16. I went out that day with £10 in my pocket. This was like winning the lottery. Just spotted it out of the corner of my eye and sprinted over, picked it up and ran off.’
–Swoosh33
11.
‘Friend bought an old Fiat X19 for £500 cash off a bloke in a pub, with the idea to do it up at some point.. He stuck it in his garage and left it for six months.
‘When he got round to checking it out properly he found an envelope with £700 in cash stuffed into the back of the glove box. Free car plus £200.’
–Otto1968
12.
‘My partner. He was quite happy at his job and randomly received a call from a recruiter one day and the only reason he answered the call was because he thought it was a delivery driver.
‘He had a pre-screen and told the recruiter he was happy where he was, recruiter asked him how much he would consider leaving for and as more of a joke than anything, he said £100k. Recruiter said okay, he’ll see what the employer says. Next thing he knows, he’s got an interview.
‘At this point, he doesn’t particularly need this job, he was cushty where he was but thought the interview experience would be useful so he decided to go anyway.
‘He turns up to the Zoom interview wearing a bright pink Princess Peach Christmas jumper with the CTO of this company and gets the job.
‘I don’t know of anyone else who managed to nab themself a six figure role seemingly by accident.’
–adorabelledeerheart
13.
‘A long time ago a friend of a friend worked for a tech startup for six months. During their time there as part of their benefits package they were given a few company shares each month which at the time were worth pennies.
‘The company stopped doing this after a while as they started to grow and it was only a few of the early employees that ended up with any shares.
‘They sold them years later not long before the dot com bubble burst and walked away with several million.’
–sjw_7
14.
‘My husband came to the races with me for the first time not long after we started dating. We hadn’t much money so were only betting a pound or two each race, just for fun. So he picked his horse for this race, based on it ‘looking nice’, and toddled off to a rails bookie.
‘I’ll have a pound each way’, he shouts, over the noise of the crowd, holding up a £10 note. Bookie mishears and gives him a ticket for £5 each way and he’s too embarrassed to correct it.
‘So he slinks back and admits he’s blown his entire betting budget for the night, and the horse is the rank outsider at 50-1 in a field of about 15+ horses. When I’d stopped laughing, we went off to watch.
‘Rounding the final bend, his nag is stone last and he’s just about to rip up the ticket when I suddenly see the jockey pull it wide. That tells me it may not be as beat as it looks and I tell him to hang on a second…
‘Well this thing turned on the afterburners like you’d not believe, blew past the entire field and won going away. He pocketed more than he earned in a week and has never forgotten it. Jammy bastard.’
–cari-strat
15.
‘Back when National Lottery scratchcards were new, the newsagent near me was investigated for fraud, after winning large prizes on the scratchcards five times in three weeks.
‘He was a very by-the-book person, so despite the obvious suspicions, most people gave him the benefit of the doubt. Turns out we were right to – he was so by the book, he didn’t even use his own scratchcards. He bought them at Tesco, won legitimately, and was cleared.’
–DickSpannerPI
16.
‘On my way home, accidentally left my laptop bag on the local bus. Waited at stop for 45 minutes until bus came on its return path towards town, entered and the bus driver had the bag ready, “Is this yours?”‘
–GuyOnTheInterweb
17.
‘I bought two coats for £120 each with the intention of keeping one and returning the other. I got an email saying my order had been refunded and received the money back for both (despite them both still being at home in my room). I checked with customer services as was worried about it and they said to keep it.
‘That same month, another online order refunded me more than I was owed by £80. Again I asked their customer services and they said don’t worry about it. Should have got a lottery ticket that month in hindsight.’
18.
‘A few years ago I lost a pair of sunglasses on holiday after visiting a beach about 30 mins away from where I was staying.
‘Went back the next day having given up on searching the hotel and bar and god knows where else and someone snorkelling next to me pulled them out of the sea bed. They had spent a whole night in the sea, and were completely in tact, not a single scratch.’
–AdditionNo4197
19.
‘Not someone I know personally but my favourite story is Bill Morgan, an Australian. He won a car from a scratch card and, due to having had some awful personal luck beforehand, was being filmed doing a reenactment of this hy a TV crew. He won $250,000 live on TV. It’s definitely worth a watch.’
–Mystic_Farce
Will never cease to amaze us. And you can see the incredible video of Bill’s winning moment here.