Sunday, January 09, 2005

The $40 Million Inner Voice

Brooklyn's Clifford Maxwell is living proof you should pay attention to the voices in your head — they could make you $40 million richer.

The retired father of five was riding a bus past his regular lottery outlet two weeks ago when an "inner voice" urged him to get off and purchase a ticket — even though he already had three entries tucked away in his wallet.


Sure enough, a few nights later the 61-year-old former MTA worker watched in stunned disbelief as his lucky seven numbers rolled across the screen — the exact numbers shown on the last of his Quick Pick tickets.


"I am truly blessed," a beaming Maxwell said yesterday. "I was on the bus and an inner voice told me to get off and buy another one. So I did."


Maxwell's impulse buy made him the sole winner of New York Lottery's end-of-year $40 million jackpot — and he broke the news to his astonished children during their Christmas Day breakfast


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