£117K blind luck Lotto win
DENIS FORGOT SPECS
A COUPLE won more than £100,000 after the husband bought a Euromillions Lucky Dip because he forgot to take his glasses to the shop.
Denis Fawsitt, 80, normally uses family birthdays for his weekly numbers but was forced to rely on the random selection when he left his spectacles at home.
The former builder and coal miner asked shop staff for a Lucky Dip ticket after he was unable to see the play slip properly due to his poor eyesight.
But his lucky piece of forgetfulness paid off when he scooped £116,124 by matching five numbers and one Lucky Star number in the draw on March 16.
He and wife Ann, 75, of Hatton, Derbys, now plan to treat themselves to a house and garden makeover.
Denis said: “I realised I had forgotten my glasses and tried to pick my numbers, but I just couldn’t. I went to pay for my papers and asked the lady behind the counter for a Lucky Dip.
“It turned out to be one of my best decisions ever.
“After what happened in the newsagent, I had this funny feeling we were going to win.
“I said to my wife Ann that evening that I felt we were going to win big.”
The next morning Denis went to get his daily newspapers and asked staff to check his ticket and he was told to call Camelot because he had won a large amount of money.
Denis called his daughter Sally in disbelief as soon as he got home, asking her to pop in on her way to work to check the ticket for him.
He added: “When I called Sally she thought I was being silly and had probably got things mixed up, especially as I told her I had forgotten my glasses.”