NEW MILFORD, Conn. - Courtesy counts in dealing with customers, but it also has paid off for a supermarket cashier who says a rude customer turned out to be worth $25,000.
A grumpy customer was the source of luck for Loretta Morris who works at the Northville Market.
"We have a policy in our store to ask for a driver's license when someone buys lottery tickets, cigarettes or alcohol," Morris said Tuesday.
But one customer last Tuesday decided not to produce a picture ID to purchase a $5 Silver Bells scratch-off Connecticut state lottery ticket.
Morris said the customer told her to "stick the ticket," when she asked for proof he was 18.
At the end of her shift she decided to just buy the ticket instead of putting it back and having a loose ticket in the store.
She took the ticket home where she scratched the ticket, which had three chances to win.
Morris had almost given up when the little scratch-off wrapped present and the Christmas tree didn't yield prizes, but the third little scratch-off box made her an instant winner.
On Friday, she and her husband traveled an hour to New Britain's lottery office and returned with a check for $17,501 after federal and state taxes.
Good for her!
A grumpy customer was the source of luck for Loretta Morris who works at the Northville Market.
"We have a policy in our store to ask for a driver's license when someone buys lottery tickets, cigarettes or alcohol," Morris said Tuesday.
But one customer last Tuesday decided not to produce a picture ID to purchase a $5 Silver Bells scratch-off Connecticut state lottery ticket.
Morris said the customer told her to "stick the ticket," when she asked for proof he was 18.
At the end of her shift she decided to just buy the ticket instead of putting it back and having a loose ticket in the store.
She took the ticket home where she scratched the ticket, which had three chances to win.
Morris had almost given up when the little scratch-off wrapped present and the Christmas tree didn't yield prizes, but the third little scratch-off box made her an instant winner.
On Friday, she and her husband traveled an hour to New Britain's lottery office and returned with a check for $17,501 after federal and state taxes.
Good for her!