(Baltimore) - Donna Simpson was hungry and exhausted on Saturday, after helping her husband straighten out his late-sister’s home. When he and their son decided to go to a tractor-pull that evening, she declined, choosing instead to go out and get a slice of pizza. After purchasing her slice and a drink, she debated buying a couple Lottery scratch-offs. “I almost left without them,” said Donna. “But I just had a gut feeling you know, so I went back in and got two 4 Way Bingo tickets.

Later that evening at home she sat alone at the kitchen table and scratched the tickets. The first ticket revealed a $3 win. The second, which was the $30,000 winner, made Donna cry. “I looked at the ticket in shock and then I just cried, I was so tired and now I was so happy,” Donna declared. “The win reenergized me, I wasn’t so tired then.”

Donna, who was accompanied to Lottery headquarters by her husband, William and one of their sons, Thomas, said that she checked, rechecked and checked the ticket again. Finally, convinced she’d won, she called Thomas at the tractor pull. “I told him, tell Daddy I won $30,000. “He said nuh-uh, than I said, uh-huh, he said nuh-uh, I said uh-huh,” said the mother-of-four, chuckling. Later when Thomas returned home and checked the ticket, he said, “Momma, it is a winner.”

The 52-year-old, who works as a bus attendant for Charles County Schools, intends to put some of her winnings in the bank and pay a few bills. But, first she’s going to give her husband money for new tires that he’s been wanting. “I just love money, it makes life easier,” said William, with a hearty laugh.

The winning ticket was purchased at Burchmart #228, located at 10195 Berry Road in Waldorf.