The sweet old woman who won the $590 million Powerball last year was not who she seemed. And it took a 10-year-old to uncover her act.

It seems that before her win, 84-year-old Gloria C. Mackenzie was at the same lottery store as mother-of-two Mindy Crandell and her daughter.

Then suddenly she jumped the queue. According to reports, this is what happened:

Daughter: "Mom, There's a lady in front of us."

Crandell: 'I noticed that the lady was there. Didn't pay a lot of mind to it.'

The cashier stopped Mackenzie and gave Crandell an opportunity to buy her tickets first, but she generously declined.

And as it turned out, Gloria Mackenzie went on to collect $370.8 million before taxes, as the sole winner of the jackpot.

Asked if she had any regrets, Crandell said she didn't. "It could have been us, but things happen."

She said the most important thing is that her daughter Mallory learned a valuable lesson that day. "That being polite is better than being rich."

I'm not sure many would agree.