Woe betide the line cutter. Not only is Aboutit rude to push in front of people in a queue; your actions could have million dollar ramifications.
An anonymous New Zealand man has claimed a cool NZ$1 million ($724 000) in lottery winnings after a person cut in front of him in the queue.
SEE ALSO: Woman finds $157,418 lottery ticket while cleaning out her purseThe lucky winner of the random draw told the NZ Herald"I was waiting in line at the Lotto shop and another customer nipped in front of me, I wasn't in any hurry, so I just let them go ahead and didn't say anything."
He added "I guess good karma pays off. If that hadn't happened, they might have had the winning ticket not me."
So what's the Papamoa-based winner and his loving wife going to spend their milli on? So far, just one thing.
"The win has made it possible for us to buy a home of our own - we're so excited!" he said.
"We're not too sure what else we'll do just yet. But whatever we end up deciding, we know the win will make a massive difference to our family -- we're just absolutely thrilled,"
Politeness will get you everywhere, if you're lucky. Cue gleeful shimmying.
Astronomers saw one galaxy impale another. The damage was an eye
Glen Baxter Week, Day Two: Mondrians, Nipples
Try First Thyself: In Praise of the Campus Dining Hall
Jim Comstock’s “West Virginia Hillbilly,” A Newspaper for the Ages
Against Fear
Janine di Giovanni: The Art of War Reporting
The Single Girl’s Guide to Art
On Eleanor Perenyi’s “Green Thoughts”
Today's Hurdle hints and answers for May 12, 2025
The Life, Loves, and Adventures of Omar Khayyám
The State of PC Gaming in 2016
Last Chance: Subscribe to The Paris Review and Lucky Peach
Staff Picks: James Turrell, Stuart Nadler, Alfred Stieglitz
Didn’t This Used to be Easier? The Nostalgia of Constipation
Ireland fines TikTok $600 million for sharing user data with China
Karl Ove Knausgaard, Publisher
The Political Novel: An Interview with Édouard Louis
“Morning Street,” a poem by Carlos Drummond de Andrade
Best headphones deal: Save up to 51% on Beats at Amazon
The Joys of the Flea Market
When Women Starred in Action Movies: Serial Queens of the 1910sWhiting Awards 2016: Ocean Vuong, PoetryWho Wrote ”Lolita” First?Staff Picks: Robyn Schiff, Jensen Beach, Benjamin FondaneYou Didn’t Know You Wanted It, But … Knausgaard in Legos“Polite New Yorker”: The Gray’s Papaya ButtonWhy “Peblum” Is a Decidedly Different Take on the Toga EpicAttention Shoppers—Or Customers, Patrons, Whoever You Are…Poem: Nin Andrews, “The Artichoke”Today in TwentyAfter the Love Has Gone: Reflections on the Regular SeasonWhy Charlie Chaplin Wanted to Play HamletHow Difficult: A Comics Adaptation of Lydia Davis’s StoryWin Free Tickets: Nathaniel Mackey and Cathy Park HongLittle Match Girl: Taking Abuse on the InternetHow Shakespeare in the Park Changed the Way I Watch PlaysWho Was Judith Leyster? The Overlooked Women Artists of the Golden AgeWhen Life Feels Like a HeavyEver Affectionately Yours: Letters—and Doodles—from Iris MurdochWhiting Awards 2016: Safiya Sinclair, Poetry Dear Sally Draper, Maybe Wait a Few Years to Read This by Adam Wilson Wordle today: Here's the answer and hints for May 14 Poems, PEN, and Poe by Sadie Stein Beautiful Bookshelves, Rule Breaking, and More! by Sadie Stein Tinder slammed over mysterious premium pricing, transparency and data use concerns Literary Paint Chips: Gallery 2 by Leanne Shapton and Ben Schott World Book Night, Shakespeare Day by Sadie Stein Apple previews new accessibility tools ‘Bartleby,’ ‘Star Wars,’ and Animal Authors by Sadie Stein Trump's golf club press conference was a social distancing disaster — until the tweet 'The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom': How to upgrade energy cells Happy Golden Anniversary! by Sadie Stein Maurice Sendak on 'Bumble Moon Madness by Sadie Stein Apple may have leaked the name of its mixed reality operating system Who Needs the Pulitzer? We’ve Got Joshua Cohen! by The Paris Review Crowdsourced Books, Twenties Muses, the World’s Worst Word by Sadie Stein Eurovision's 2023 Grand Final was everything the internet hoped for and more Shocking: Congress seemed to actually understand AI's potential risks during hearing Something Out of Something: Talking with Etgar Keret by Rebecca Sacks