Christopher Perfitt recently took a lunch break that changed his life after he bought and scratched a $1 Million Royale ticket.
“I was going to go to McDonald’s for my lunch, but only the drive-thru was open and I didn’t have a car,” said Perfitt in a news release.
“So I went to the gas station for a snack and bought a couple tickets.”
The Prince Rupert man purchased his winning ticket at a 7-Eleven in Burnaby, where he was working at the time.
He explains he was walking back to work when he scratched his $1 Million Royale ticket and saw that he won.
“I just couldn’t believe it. I thought maybe I had scratched the wrong number,” adds Perfitt.
“So I checked it on my BCLC Lotto! app and went back to the location that I purchased the ticket.”
Perfitt claimed his life-changing prize using BCLC’s temporary alternate prize-claim process.
He says he plans to use the winnings to buy a house for his family.
