Charles Langston-A truck driver won $1M after announcing his retirement. He still put in his last 2 weeks.

2025-05-07 17:51:18source:HAI Communitycategory:Contact

WEST BOYLSTON,Charles Langston Mass. – A Massachusetts man won $1 million off a scratch-off ticket he bought three days after giving his two-week retirement notice, according to the state lottery.

Paul Bashaw, 65, formerly a truck driver, had a lucky strike from a $20 scratch-off ticket he bought last month at J&J Variety, a convenience store in West Boylston, about 55 miles west of Boston.

The state lottery said Bashaw finished his last two weeks without telling anyone at work about the windfall.

He waited until last Friday, his last day of work, to cash his ticket at the Massachusetts Lottery headquarters in Dorchester, where all state lottery prizes above $103,000 are claimed.

Bashaw, who chose the one-time cash payment of $650,000 before taxes, said he would use some of his winnings for travel.

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J& J Variety also got a $10,000 bonus for the sale of the ticket, which was for the $5,000,000 100X Cashword ticket with a $5 million top prize.

“I told my wife there were three things in life I never thought I’d see happen: the Patriots winning the Super Bowl, getting a hole in one − that happened five years ago − and hitting the lottery,” Bashaw said, according to lottery officials. “Now I’ve hit all three."

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