What have you "almost" done?

[MrsPeacefrog]

Well, I almost won $5,000,000 today!! I went and checked a lottery ticket that was sitting in my wallet for a few weeks and it turns out I had 5 out of 6 numbers!!! If I had gotten that last number I would have been 5 million dollars richer, because I didn't I am only $1,118.40 richer. OK, I am not scoffing at the thousand dollars but my heart skipped a beat when the reality that if I just got the number 35 on my ticket instead of 13 I would have hit the jackpot!!

So what have you been close to doing? Have you almost won a contest or prize. Or even almost been in a car accident if you were a few minutes earlier? What have you "almost" done?

[schwanda]

I'm still jealous of your winnings!!!!

Amanda

[Melissa]

What a great time of year to win!!!!

I have to think about this one... I'm sure I've almost won something.

[Clare]

We had the same situation a couple of years ago. Alex checked the ticket and thought that we had 6 numbers. He calmly passed me the ticket and asked me to check, but we only had 5 numbers. For 5 minutes he thought we were millionaires :lol: We still ended up with a couple of thousand dollars out of it, but not nearly as exciting as the big one would have been :lol:

Congrats on the win! :woo:

[MrsPeacefrog]

Yeah I know, it has come at a great time of year, the funny thing is, it's almost the exact amount we paid for Jacob's surgery on Monday, no word of a lie, the surgery cost $1,111.25, I do get about $500 back from my health insurance and medicare on that amount, but I will be out of pocket about that amount for the anaethesist (spelling) so the winnings literally made the surgery look like it didn't even happen in our bank book!!!!!

[MrsPeacefrog]

We had the same situation a couple of years ago. Alex checked the ticket and thought that we had 6 numbers. He calmly passed me the ticket and asked me to check, but we only had 5 numbers. For 5 minutes he thought we were millionaires :lol: We still ended up with a couple of thousand dollars out of it, but not nearly as exciting as the big one would have been :lol:

Congrats on the win! :woo:


ACK! that would have been way worse, to think you were millionares then for that to come crashing down would suck! Atleast I was non the wiser. Just walking around with a $1000 ticket in my wallet and acting like it was a simple piece of paper :crazy:

[Melissa]

Deb, well at least that you aren't "paying for the surgery" the lotto is. Yeah, surgeries are so farking expensive. I saw the bill from mine, :woa: TG for medical insurance. The brace for my leg was $1100. :faint:

[MrsPeacefrog]

Yeah it's unbelievable isn't it. Thankfully health insurance pays for 100% of the hospital stay, that was the bill just for the surgeon!

[Michal]

About 6 years ago I ate a KFC and received a scratch ticket with the meal. I randomly scratched 3 numbers and won nothing so I scratched them all just to see what was behind the others. 3 were for $100,000. All you needed was 3 of the same, so I also was close to winning big, it kind of sucked for a bit then I got over it :lol:

[~Deborah~]

Congratulations Deb!!!!

[Nicole]

I have never almost won anything. I've never won anything either :lol: Congratulations Deb, what a lucky thing that the surgery was paid for by the lottery!!