$3.4M Winner Kept Secret 3 Months

Item: Lottery winner stayed mum about his millions /Yakima Herald-Republic

More Info: Got a secret? Feel free to share it with Curtis Eldred. He knows how to keep them. The 61-year-old Yakima resident told nobody but his mother he was a millionaire after winning the state lottery. “I wasn’t really in a hurry,” said Eldred on Monday, when he claimed his 3-month-old prize at the Washington State Lottery headquarters in Olympia. All those news reports about an unclaimed $3.4 million winning lottery ticket purchased May 11 at Cruisin’ Bill’s Convenience store on West Yakima Avenue? Eldred just clipped them and pasted them in a scrapbook, while keeping that coveted ticket hidden under a floor mat of his shed.

Question: Can you keep a secret?