A big surprise awaited Alma Albaugh who showed up at the scheduled time at the Duke Station, 224 Union St, to pick up the T-shirt and coffee mug that she had won. What she found was a group of lottery officials and media people waiting to tell her she won $2 million for a lottery game that she had played in 2008. National lottery.

Albaugh was completely stunned when the big supersized check was given to her, and she started to shiver.

“You got to be kidding me,” Albaugh said, as she teasingly pointed at the station manager, George Cook, who had never spilled the beans.

Albaugh, who hung up her boots nearly three years ago, just a few months before she purchased this winning ticket, was putting on a garage sale the day she won. Her relatives couldn’t identify with why she would leave the garage sale to pick up a coffee cup and T-shirt. Lottery numbers.

And although Albaugh can’t retire again, the first thing she is thinking on doing with her cash winnings is to take her family to Walt Disney World for a nice trip.

A devoted lottery player, Albaugh originally earned $2,500 on her $20 investment into the Two Million Platinum Payout, which put her into the top prize payout (TPD) and a second chance to win. Some games take a number of years to close, explained Ohio Lottery Promotion Manager Allison Turner. Albaugh was the top draw of the other 29 second-chance winners and was pulled May 18.

Turner persuaded Albaugh to go to the station by calling to tell her she was a consolation winner. All she wanted to know, after the $2 million began to sink in, was “where’s my coffee cup and T-shirt.” Lottery checker.

For the best lotto games, numbers and odds go to www.lottery.com