Lottery win will make life a little easier
Published: February 15, 2006
t took Jeffrey Jacobs a little while to appreciate the bang he got for a buck.
The 51-year-old West Bend man won $200,000 on a recent Powerball drawing.
A good return on a $1 investment, not that Jacobs realized it at first.
Jacobs bought one quick pick ticket a couple of weeks ago at Pick ‘n Save North.
“I remembered I bought a ticket on (a) Saturday and this was a Wednesday and they knew there was a $200,000 winner but nobody had come through (to claim the prize),” he said.
Jacobs stopped at the store to get a prescription filled and decided to stop by the customer service desk to check his ticket. When he tried to process it, the scanner said it could not process the ticket.
Jacobs gave it to a clerk who received the same response. The clerk grabbed Saturday’s winning numbers.
“He put it right next to my ticket and started circling one, two, three, four, five in a row,” Jacobs said. “”Oh,’ he says, ‘You’re the guy we’ve been waiting for.’”
The news initially had little impact on Jacobs.
“I’m just really sick so it didn’t cue in at all and I said lethargically ‘Oh great. OK, well great, OK.’”
Jacobs said he took his ticket back, shook the clerk’s hand, picked up his prescription and went home and back to bed.
“You know without them really just putting the money on a table you really can’t fathom any of it,” Jacobs said. “It’s a blessing.”
Jacobs has the money sitting in a bank. He said he’ll make some investments and the winnings will help pay college tuition for his daughter.
While winning the money hasn’t sunk in, Jacobs said he has thought about missing out on the grand prize.
“To be honest, my Powerball number was 36 and the winning Powerball was 37 and I was just one number short,” he said.
Jacobs said he would have ‘liked to have won $156 million but I’m very glad somebody up above just decided to let me win.”
Jacobs said he never won anything before and he will probably take some of the money and invest it in a trip and maybe another ticket.
“I still put a dollar in,” he said. “I’m not going to go out now and blow $10,000 on a ticket or anything.”
Jacobs said he rarely gambles and he doesn’t expect the extra income to change who he is.
“Just once in a while I throw a buck in,” he said. “This isn’t enough to retire on, it just makes life a little easier.”
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