Tickets straddle the winner

Press, 14 October 1986, Page 1

Tickets straddle the winner

Special correspondent A couple of Wanganui’s dated dads are wondering what to do with Mrs Tracy Adam — hug her fondly, or toss her over the back fence. Mrs Adam has swollen the wallets of her father and father-in-law with $lOOO lottery cheques, but they will be dreaming for the rest of their lives of what might have been.

Mrs Adam left her Father’s Day shopping run a little late this year and found just enough time to slip into Wanganui to pick up two cards and two Golden Kiwi tickets.

She plucked the tickets at random from the block on the shop counter, and labelled each of them with the same nom-de-plume: “Happy Father’s Day.”

Each of them won the same prize — $lOOO for being one off the winning ticket.

In the middle, the ticket that Mrs Adam ignored in

her haste, was the big one — the top prize of $lOO,OOO.

Mrs Adam said last evening from the farm she and her husband lease near Wanganui that her father, Peter Larsen, and father-in-law, Joe Adam, were taking things "quite well.” “They are delighted really,” she said. “We’ve had a good giggle over what could have happened, but you can’t win them all. “I was in a devil of a hurry on the day and can’t really remember whether the middle ticket was there or not. My baby boy was screaming in the car, and I rushed in, grabbed two tickets and cards and tore out.

“It’s a pity I didn’t take three tickets — then we might have got our own farm.”

Now, instead of visiting real estate agents, the Adams are looking forward to a night on the town.