Frank Proud - Easy Pick Lotto Winner Gives Tip To Retailer

A lot of people buy their lottery tickets from one lotto retailer. They keep buying from the same store. Often, they will tell the retailer that if they win the jackpot, they will come back and give him a tip. Do you do this? Are you the type of person that would come back and give the lotto retailer a tip if you won big? How much would you give? Did you know that if a big jackpot is won, the store that sold the ticket would get a nice commission for selling it? Would this info change your mind about giving a tip?

Frank Proud is one of those guys that always bought his lottery tickets from the same store. The clerk would always joke that, if he won, he would need to come back and buy her a pack of gum. Then he did win. In April of 2010, Frank bought $6 worth of Easy Pick Powerball tickets. One of them won $1 million. The very first thing he did was he went back to the store and asked the retailer to pick out a pack of gum for herself. He paid for it with a one hundred dollar bill and told her to keep the change. Nice tip!

$100 is not too bad. However, had Frank Proud won an even bigger jackpot like, say, $100 million, he would have to give her a lot more than $100. Otherwise, he would just look really cheap.

At the time of his win, Frank Proud was living in Durbin, West Virginia, with his wife, Patricia. Frank was working as a certified public accountant and Patricia was a retired bed-and-breakfast operator. When asked what they planned to do with the money, they said that they'd probably buy a new car. Other than that, they didn't really know what else they would be doing with the money.

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