A Brutal Lotto Lesson In New Jersey [Video]

While Powerball fever has officially swept the nation, one group of New Jerseyans learned the hard way to check, double check, and then triple check just to make sure.

A lot of us dream about what to do if we win $1.5 billion dollars (ok, well, a couple hundred million after taxes, at least). A lot of people say that they'd quit their jobs on the spot.

But, if the staff at Grissini Restaurant in Englewood Cliffs can serve as a lesson, it's always a good idea to be as calm as possible before telling the boss to take the job and shove it (or, as one valet allegedly did - tell a customer to park his own darn car).

They thought they won.

They did not.

Here's the full, painful story: