December 6, 200619 yr Salesman tells boss to 'stick it' after winning the lottery - then realises he LOST Last updated at 22:00pm on 5th December 2006 Unlucky: the saga began when Mr Moseley, 36, of Gosport, Hampshire, bought a £5 24-Karat Gold scratchcard When Steve Moseley thought he'd won £1 million on a scratchcard, he didn't hold back on the celebrations. Overjoyed, the car salesman danced on his desk, threw money around the showroom, sent a colleague out to buy champagne and phoned his girlfriend to break the good news. He even told his boss: "You can stick your job, I've won the lottery." That was at 10am. At 10.45am, his luck took a turn for the worse. When he phoned National Lottery operator Camelot to confirm his prize, he was told he didn't have a winning ticket after all. What he had thought were two matching 15s were in fact a 15 and a 16. Mr Moseley said he dropped the phone, felt sick - then had to beg his boss to give him back his job. The unfortunate saga began when Mr Moseley, 36, of Gosport, Hampshire, bought a £5 24-Karat Gold scratchcard on his way to work at the Fortnums car dealership in Fareham. Once at his desk he scratched off his "lucky weight" which he thought was 15g - not noticing that it said 'SXTN' underneath - then matched it with "another" 15g weight. "I then scratched off the bit that tells you how much you've won and it said one million," he said. "As far as I was concerned, I was a millionaire. All my worries were gone. "That's when I started celebrating. It was pandemonium - I was dancing all over the desks and screaming and shouting. "I was telling people to order champagne and I actually started getting money out of my wallet and throwing it at people. It's all quite embarrassing now." Mr Moseley added: "My boss came in to see what was going on and I told him, 'I've won the lottery. I'm off. You can stick your job'. There didn't seem any point carrying on with my job because as far as I was concerned I had £1 million in my hand." It was only after phoning girlfriend Theresa Parsons, 27, that he called Camelot. "The woman there asked me if the text matched as well as the figures and that's when I saw one said 'FFTN' but the other said 'SXTN'. "I dropped the phone. I felt physically sick. I got a magnifying glass out to study the numbers and they looked right but I realised I was never going to get the money. "In my mind I had already ordered the Aston Martin and decided on the colour and suddenly that was taken away from me. I had to go back to my boss and beg for my job back." His manager, Mike Earle, said: "You see where people's loyalties lie when money like that is involved. He'd been a bit of an idiot - I'd never seen anyone celebrating so much. "But I felt sorry for him because I can see the numbers did look genuine on the ticket." Mr Moseley, who has since resigned to work for another dealer, said: "That night I went out with the missus to drown my sorrows and decided to keep the ticket as a souvenir of how close I came to being a millionaire. "I know what it's like to win a million and what it feels like to lose a million." A Camelot spokesman said: "We have received a very small number of queries about the 24-Karat Gold scratchcard from players about similarities between play symbols. "The numeric weights are duplicated by a play caption in words underneath each nugget of gold. We always advise players to check that their ticket definitely is a winner before they take any action."
December 6, 200619 yr Author Ooops!!! that was a dumb mistake. I always triple check my scratch cards. Would you be tempted to tell your boss to "stuff it", then??:stunned:
December 6, 200619 yr Would you be tempted to tell your boss to "stuff it"' date=' then??:stunned:[/quote'] not the current ones
December 7, 200619 yr Author Scratch cards are a waste of money. Especially if you mistakenly think you've won and spend money you don't actually have on champagne etc.!!:rolleyes:
December 7, 200619 yr quit unlucky :D i never win :( annoying. similar thing happened to my neighbor. car was the prize in this case but anyway he did not go as far as this poor man :D it was me actually wno ruined his dreams
December 12, 200619 yr Scratch cards are a waste of money. not necessarily. if I buy them for the sake of them, then yes because I don't win. if I buy them, when the voices in my head insist I have to buy a particular one, I always win.
December 12, 200619 yr not necessarily. if I buy them for the sake of them' date=' then yes because I don't win. if I buy them, when the voices in my head insist I have to buy a particular one, I always win.[/quote']That will explain why you were talking to yourself immediately before you pulled a face and threw a banana bonanza poundcard in the bin the other night.
December 12, 200619 yr Author That will explain why you were talking to yourself immediately before you pulled a face and threw a banana bonanza poundcard in the bin the other night. I fear another "domestic" might be on the way................................ :stunned:
December 12, 200619 yr Author quit unlucky :D i never win :( annoying. similar thing happened to my neighbor. car was the prize in this case but anyway he did not go as far as this poor man :D it was me actually wno ruined his dreams How? Did you tear his winning ticket up??:rolleyes:
December 13, 200619 yr I fear another "domestic" might be on the way................................ :stunned: they e-argue all the time!! lol one from the downstairs laptop and the other in the upstairs pc..... lol its hilarious!
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