USA Today

Calif. grandma claims $23M lotto prize just in time:

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) — For more than five months — while Julie Cervera struggled to pay a $600 electrical bill, feed her family and keep the cable company from shutting off her service because she couldn’t pay — she was a millionaire without knowing it.

Good for Julie. It is nice to see that good things happen to good people that need help.

With all of the money Julie won she can go out and buy a train load of Brain Strong so she doesn’t forget anything important in the future.

For six months the lady from San Bernardino was driving around with a pot of gold in her glove compartment that she forgot about. Her daughter bought the winning ticket for the lottery one day when she and her mom were out shopping and threw the ticket in the glove compartment so they “wouldn’t forget” about it.

Because the claim time was about to expire the lottery officials aired a picture of Charliena Marquez buying the ticket on TV and someone called her mother and told her about it.

She grabbed her .99 Drug Mart glasses and made a mad dashed to the car. When she opened the compartment there lay the forgotten treasure  she so desperately needed.

The rest is history.

I wonder how many relatives Auntie Julie didn’t even know she had are going to come out of seclusion with their hands out? Money always brings the cockroaches out of the woodwork.

The best thing Julie and her family could do is buy a couple of first class tickets and get out of town for about 2 years until the heat dies down.

I hope she takes her Brain Strong so she remembers where she puts the airline tickets.

Good luck Julie!!!