News and Features Editor
At
Conway’s Restaurant in Oregon, waitress Aurora Kephart, 25, was given the largest
tip she has ever received. While waitressing, one of the restaurant’s regulars
who usually leaves a lottery ticket as a tip, told Kephart to pick two from any
of his Oregon lottery tickets. She was pleased when the first ticket was worth
$5, but was shocked to find that the second ticket was worth $17,505. Kephart
tried to return the ticket to the customer, but seeing as the customer made
Kephart sign the tickets so no one could steal them, she became the only person
able to cash the tickets.
Besides
giving the customer a portion of the prize money, donating some of her prize
money to benefit a muscular dystrophy charity and buying a new couch, Kephart
plans on saving the rest of the money. “[The couch is] the only thing I need,”
says Kephart. “I’m set up and secure.”
