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Taxi driver from Cambridgeshire wins EuroMillions because he forgot his son’s birthday


Forgetting a loved one's birthday is normally a recipe for disaster.

But not for taxi driver Murray McKenzie, who scooped £215,000 on the EuroMillions because he got his son's birthday wrong.

Murray, 63, chose one of his numbers because it forms part of his son Thomas' date of birth – but he was one day out.

The "slightly sheepish" Murray, who lives in Linton, said: "It's a bit embarrassing to admit that I had the wrong date for my son's birthday but with £215,228.30 now in the family coffers, I think he's prepared to forgive me.

"I had been playing those numbers on and off for years but hadn't used them for a few months as I was choosing 'lucky dips' on the occasions I did play. I still do not know why at 8am last Tuesday I thought playing them was a good idea. I'm going to put it down to Lady Luck."

Both Murray and his wife of 43 years Pat, a part-time hairdresser, are around retirement age, but say they will carry on working.

Murray, who picks up passengers in Cambridge and the surrounding villages, said he does not want to give up his taxi job because he enjoys meeting people and chatting, but will be taking his "foot off the pedal" by doing less hours.

And there will be no big purchases yet.

Former Linton Village College pupil Murray, who has two children called Thomas, 33, and Katie Lindsell, 40, said the win "really means the world to us".

He said: "It's not because we want to buy fast cars or move to a bigger house, we are very content with what we have, but it's going to give us so much freedom and peace of mind. With two children, four grandchildren and another on the way, being able to work a little less and spend more time with them is going to be amazing."

Recalling the night when he discovered his win, Murray said he realised he had a ticket from the previous night's draw while watching The National Lottery.

The former mechanic checked his ticket and noticed he had matched five main numbers and a lucky star.

He said: "When I saw that five numbers had matched I checked and double-checked, and believing it was the wine making me fuzzy headed, I actually smacked the top of my head to make sure I wasn't seeing things."


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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

Nice one

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Note to self: Just because it pops into my head does NOT mean it should come out of my mouth!!

yep, good luck to him.

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Grandad,

Cant believe I'm the only person on TDO thinking tw@t

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

It may be easy for some people to just stop working and do nothing but for some people it takes time to get used to the idea. Even in the 70s when i worked at British Leyland they had a scheme in place that when you got to 4 years before retirement age you worked a 4 day week, 3 years away and you worked a 3 day week until in your last year you were down to a one day week just so that you didn't just go to work one day and completely stop the next. They also used to run retirement classes.

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Grandad,

Did you buy a ticket CC?

If you didn't, tw@t yourself.

If you did, console yourself with the thought that you contributed to the pot he picked up!

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Chris The Fish

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gdlyi5mc ... re=related

What a twat, 63 and with 230,000 dumps in the bank he's going to carry on working? I bet his wife is a crocodilopig.

Not really......we all handle things in different ways. Me! If it happened then it would be tara...shangrila/happy days. Best of luck to him and his family.

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Common sense........is just not that Common.

Nice win, but that amount won't last long in retirement.

£230,000 would sort me out and I'm not even in my 50's yet. For example, £230,000 divided by 520 weeks which is 10 years will give him £442 a week if he drew it as a wage for the 10 years. IMO he's being greedy.

I don't think he is being greedy I think it's sensible to keep working. Once you retire after working all your life it can have adverse effects on your health if you don't have anything to do. Also there is always the chance that he'll live beyond 10 years into retirement. He has said he'll be doing less hours and obviously won't be stressed by money anymore, I think that's the sensible approach imo. Over the years he'll work less and less and become more accustomed to retirement when it naturally occurs.

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Note to self: Just because it pops into my head does NOT mean it should come out of my mouth!!

Like i posted earlier, that is how it worked at British Leyland in the 1970s.

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Grandad,

There's one driver on our firm who's well into his 70's, he gets a private pension, a state pension, his missus works cash in hand on the side yet he still works. He's retired I don't know how many times but after two weeks he comes back saying, "he can't live with his missus." My reply is as always, "dig a hole and bury her."

Well how about that all negotiated by the T&G no doubt

good luck to the geezer minde hes not wise to publicize it, like nidges comment

" DIG A HOLE AND BURY HER"

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F88K EM ALL WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND

BOOZE BOOZE BOOZE

Not sure which unions negotiated it. I was in the AUEW at the time.

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Grandad,