Rachel has hit the jackpot today!

One of our local grocery stores has a promotion in which game tickets are awarded to customers when purchases are made. The larger the purchase the more game tickets are given. Certain game tickets are “winners” which typically involves small prizes.

Rachel loves collecting the game tickets. I’m not even sure if we’ve ever won much of anything playing this game, over the years. Perhaps some small items. But it’s the game tickets that are part of the thrill for Rachel. Having lots of game tickets is victory, all by itself, for her.

Today we made a fairly large purchase so we received, probably, a dozen game tickets, or more, when we checked out. In addition to that, Rachel had a winning ticket which awarded two more game tickets. Ahh, so sweet! She had lots of tickets.

But then as we were walking out the door, after the check-out, a woman saw that Rachel was very excited about the game tickets. She approached us and held out about 7 or 8 tickets that she had just received after making her purchase.

She said, “Are you playing the game?”

Rachel’s eyes lit up.

I said, “Yes, we are.”

The woman offered her tickets to Rachel. “Here, you can have these. I’m not playing,” she said.

We thanked the woman for her kindness and generosity. As we drove home, Rachel was beaming! She has hit the jackpot today!