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Upstate grandma stops at store, wins $300,000

South Carolina Education Lottery scatch-off lottery tickets are displayed on the counter at the Exxon Station on Blossom Street Thursday, Dec. 29, 2005, in Columbia, S.C. A Charleston County man filed a lawsuit against the state lottery for fraud, claiming unethical advertising caused him to buy scratch-off lottery tickets for prizes already won by someone else. (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain)

ANDERSON, S.C. (WSPA) – A woman is $300,000 richer because her grandson wanted to stop at a convenience store in Anderson.

According to the South Carolina Education Lottery, the grandson asked his grandma to stop at the KP Foodmart on E. River St. in Anderson, so she did.

While in the store, the grandma decided to play the Multipler Surge game.

“I was sitting down at home, scratching the ticket I bought and all of sudden there it was,” she said of the windfall.  “I started screaming.”

The grandmother told lottery officials she has always wanted to start her own business and this win could allow her to do that.