Nagging Wife, Sausage Help Man Win $4.2M Lottery

A nagging wife in New Zealand who pushed her husband to buy a lottery ticket helped scoop the $4.2 million first prize - with only minutes to spare.

The man from the country's biggest city, Auckland, bought his ticket an amazing two minutes before ticket sales closed: "My wife had been nagging me all week to get a ticket."

"So I when saw the Lotto sign... I sprinted in to get the ticket before they closed," said the man, who didn't want to identified - which is common practice among lottery winners in New Zealand.

And he discovered their newly won fortune thanks to a barbecued sausage. Out shopping for bargains, the man realized he didn't have enough money to buy the sausage he was supposed to get. But before heading back home, he decided to check his lottery ticket in case he'd won a small prize.

"I could not believe it when they said I was actually the big winner," he said.

When he showed the printout to his wife, she first thought they had won $4,200.

"When she realized how much it really was, she fell to the floor, and then said: 'but all I wanted was a sausage.'"

"I must have been their last customer of the night," he said of the day when he bought the ticket. "I have never been so glad to listen to my wife's nagging."

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