{"id":130893,"date":"2023-09-24T13:39:25","date_gmt":"2023-09-24T13:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluemull.com\/?p=130893"},"modified":"2023-09-24T13:39:25","modified_gmt":"2023-09-24T13:39:25","slug":"drinker-tips-barmaid-20-scratchcard-that-turns-out-to-be-50k-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluemull.com\/lifestyle\/drinker-tips-barmaid-20-scratchcard-that-turns-out-to-be-50k-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"Drinker tips barmaid $20 scratchcard that turns out to be $50K winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Drinker tips barmaid $20 scratchcard that turns out to be a $50K winner<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>A bartender was given a \u00a315 scratch card as a tip that won a massive \u00a340k<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>When she discovered the winnings, she gave it back to the man who tipped her<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Her honesty has sparked a debate on Reddit &#8211; would you choose to give it back?\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For most people, winning a fiver on a scratch card is considered a great win &#8211; but can you imagine winning \u00a340,000?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>An honest barmaid as sparked a debate after returning a $20 scratch card to the person who gifted it to her, once she realised it had won $50,000.<\/p>\n<p>To make matters worse, the man she gave it back to only offered her a $20 tip after the exchange.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Her best friend took to Reddit&#8217;s &#8216;Server Life&#8217; forum to share the experience and find out what others would have done in the same situation.<\/p>\n<p>She wrote &#8216;I think about this at least once a week. A couple years ago my best friend was bartending and a guy that had dinner up at the bar with her tipped her with a $20 scratcher.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/22\/08\/75719943-12548383-image-a-1_1695368902151.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>An honest bartender has sparked a debate after returning a \u00a315 scratch card to the person who gifted it to her, once she realised it had won \u00a340,000<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/22\/12\/75722099-12548383-image-m-21_1695383232908.jpg\" height=\"331\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>An honest bartender has sparked a debate after returning a \u00a315 scratch card to the person who gifted it to her, once she realised it had won \u00a340,000<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;She turned around and scratched it right then and the scratcher won $50,000.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Her, being a ridiculously honest and empathetic person told the guy and saw his face just DROP.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>She then shockingly decided to give the scratch card back to the man, who then gave her $20 cash instead.<\/p>\n<p>Her friend asks Redditors what they would have done and the responses are mostly in agreement that they would keep it a secret and bag the cash.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The top response with over 1,000 upvotes, reads &#8216;Omg, f*** that. I would have kept my mouth shut tighter than I ever had before, and I\u2019m also an honest and empathetic person.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The fact that he only gave her $20 after makes it so much worse.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Others agreed, writing &#8216;Seriously. That is life-changing down payment on a house money. He would have had to tear it from my cold dead hands&#8217; and &#8216;She played herself&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Her friend, who wrote the Reddit post, said it &#8216;kills her&#8217; to this day and she thinks about it more than she should.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/22\/12\/75722083-12548383-image-a-23_1695383288250.jpg\" height=\"320\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/22\/12\/75722081-12548383-image-a-26_1695383408673.jpg\" height=\"229\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Her friend asks Redditors what they would have done and the responses are mostly in agreement that they would keep it a secret and bag the cash<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/22\/12\/75722087-12548383-image-a-24_1695383354059.jpg\" height=\"296\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>However, others could empathise with the bartender, arguing that it would have been hard to keep the $50,000 win a secret when she opened it in front of the customer<\/p>\n<p>Adding &#8216;I was so upset she didn\u2019t keep it!! And $20 is just a slap in the face\u2026\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I was expecting him to at least split it with her or something. But no this isn\u2019t rage bait this legit happened and I think about it all the time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;She\u2019s very much into \u201ckarma\u201d and other people needing stuff more than her etc. so she genuinely didn\u2019t regret giving it back but I absolutely wouldn\u2019t have.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>She also later came back with an update that she had spoken with the man&#8217;s partner since he won the money, and revealed that supposedly &#8216;the guy ended up blowing it at casinos in the area&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Redditors replied &#8216;They are an idiot and the guy tipping her $20 after is such a slap in the face. Wow&#8217; and &#8216;That\u2019s so dumb, there\u2019s no reason for her to give it back, it\u2019s legally hers after he gave it to her.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Another user added &#8216;this is why I will never provide lottery tix as a gift, Christmas present or related.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>However, others could empathise with the bartender, arguing that it would have been hard to keep the $50,000 win a secret when she opened it in front of the customer.<\/p>\n<p>Someone wrote &#8216;Could you really keep your composure after realizing you won $50,000?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Another chimed in with &#8216;She sounds like a good-hearted &amp; honest person. Karma will come back to her in other ways&#8217;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/femail\/article-12548383\/Drinker-tips-barmaid-20-scratchcard-turns-50K-winner.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drinker tips barmaid $20 scratchcard that turns out to be a $50K winner A bartender was given a \u00a315 scratch&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Drinker tips barmaid $20 scratchcard that turns out to be $50K winner - bluemull<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/bluemull.com\/lifestyle\/drinker-tips-barmaid-20-scratchcard-that-turns-out-to-be-50k-winner\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Drinker tips barmaid $20 scratchcard that turns out to be $50K winner - 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