Some people have all the luck.  Andrew Greenwald makes it look really easy to win big in the Washington State Lottery.  Andrew has been shopping at the Safeway on the top of Queen Anne hill (2100 Queen Anne Ave. N) for years and knows several of the staff by name. Andrew is particularly close with one clerk named Holly, who just happened to sell him a $100,000 scratch ticket last Wednesday.

Andrew says he bought four tickets that day, “I scratched the first one, and it was a $10 winner, then the second was a $20 winner, then $50 and finally $100,000!” he recalled. He says when Holly checked the last ticket he had to get her a chair. $100,080 richer, Andrew took his friend Laurie on a date that night to Antonio’s restaurant in Bellevue to celebrate. Who can blame him?

Andrew says the first people he called with the news were his mother Laurie, and his daughter. When he called his daughter, he told her simply, “I’ll pay your bills.” She started to cry upon hearing the good news.

Andrew has lived in the Queen Anne neighborhood since 1969. Several years ago Andrew won $50,000 playing Vegas Nights, another Lottery Scratch game. This time he plans to pay off his credit card, take his mother to Hawaii and of course pay off his daughter’s bills.  Andrew won $100,000 playing Fab Fortune, a scratch game from Washington’s Lottery. 

Read more about Andrew on the Queen Anne News site.  Thanks for the photo grab!