A Frenchman owes a lottery prize of over 4.5 million euros to a waiting break in a kebab shop.
In July, the occasional player filled out a lottery ticket at his holiday destination while his wife asked for information at the tourist office, the French lottery company said.
The man in his early 60s stuffed the lottery ticket into his wallet without paying any attention to it.
Almost two months later, when he was waiting for his doner kebab in a snack bar at home, he remembered the lottery ticket and ran to a lottery acceptance point nearby.
There he found out about his winnings of millions, which he could only have claimed on this very last day.
After that, the profit would have been forfeited.
After a few bites, he rushed home and put the rest of the kebab in the fridge.
When his wife came home, she expressed surprise at the leftovers.
"You won't believe me, but that's a gold doner kebab," said the man and told his wife about the win.
"I won everything, but a few hours later everything would have been lost."