Army veteran plays lottery and wins $100k while waiting for laundry to dry

Ronny Folley, a U.S. Army veteran, was waiting for his laundry when he went to a nearby store. That’s where he tried his luck on a scratch-off ticket and became much richer “by the time his clothes were dry,” according to the Virginia Lottery.

“I didn’t think it was real,” Folley said in a June 30 news release. “It feels great, I mean, really, really great.”

Folley scored a $100,000 prize after stopping at Mountainside Gas, Grocery and Laundromat in Stanardsville, roughly 85 miles northwest of Richmond. While at the business, officials said he snagged a ticket for the 10X the Money game.

It turns out, Folley beat more than 1-in-2.3 million odds to win the game’s top prize. Officials in a news release didn’t say how much of the extra cash he kept after taxes.