A nurse's aide who quit her job to take a cruise hit the jackpot

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Fri Dec-03-04 09:25 AM
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A nurse's aide who quit her job to take a cruise hit the jackpot

MIAMI - A nurse's aide who quit her job to take a cruise hit the jackpot.

Carol Baird won a $321,694 slot machine jackpot aboard a Carnival Cruise Lines ship off the U.S. Virgin Islands early Wednesday.

Baird, 59, quit her job after realizing she had booked her cruise in violation of her company's policy prohibiting personal vacation time seven days before or after a holiday.

"When I booked the cruise, I didn't look at the calendar," Baird said Thursday.

So she decided to quit her job at a nursing home after 17 years.

Baird said she was playing the ship's MegaCash machine, featuring a fleet-wide progressive jackpot, with her husband gaming next to her. Initially she didn't realize she had struck the bonanza.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=816&ncid=816&e=2&u=/ap/20041203/ap_on_fe_st/cruise_serendipity

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Fri Dec-03-04 09:38 AM
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1. Nice!

That's great.

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