James Jones, whose wife won $130 million from the Mega Millions lottery, owns Jones Brake & Muffler in Georgia.
James F. Jones went to bed Tuesday night worried about normal things.
He woke up at 6 a.m. Wednesday and listened to the morning news on television.
He stepped out of his trailer and called to his wife and daughter, who were getting his grandchild into the car.
"Hey, someone in Georgia just won the Mega Millions," Jones said.
In a dreamlike moment, so surreal that hours later he still couldn't fully process it, the family looked at the ticket. That someone, it turned out, was his wife. And this hard-working, tight-knit family used to fretting over utility bills, found itself neck deep in big money: $130 million. Michael Vick kind of money.
"If you ain't never had nothing, how can you expect to behave when you have something?" Jones said Wednesday afternoon as he stood behind the counter of his shop, surrounded by tires, valves and the pervasive smell of grease.
"We're just glad the good Lord gave it to us and we plan to put it to good use," Margaret Jones said Wednesday night from her home, as her family gathered to celebrate with Coca-Cola and potato chips.
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