80-year-old Albertan wins $50 million: "I'm too old for this."

Lois Olsen struck it rich in Alberta. Photo from Alberta Gaming & Liquor Commission.

An Alberta grandmother who recently won a $50-million lottery jackpot seemed surprisingly nonplussed by the windfall.

Her reaction: “I’m too old for this.”

can remember what it was like to live without running water or a telephone. At 80 years old, the newly wealthy senior grew up when cows were milked by hand and life depended on the pigs, chicken, turkeys and cattle that the family raised by hand.

Olsen has called the tiny, central-Albertan town of Irma – population 450 – home since 1957, reports the Calgary Sun. After checking her ticket at a machine in her local supermarket, Olsen came away confused. At first she thought she had won $15. She checked it again. This time it appeared she had won $500, so she called over a clerk to take a look.

“She says, ‘No you just won $50m.” Said Olsen. The Guardian reports she started shaking at the news and grabbed her groceries and left.

Now that she’s calmed down a bit. Olsen seems unruffled by her windfall win.

“For my family, it’s going to help them out a lot,” she told reporters. “For me, I’m too old for this. I would have liked to have won this 20 or 30 years ago.”

When pushed, she said she said she would likely buy an SUV.

“That will be the big purchase,” she said.

Though she admits that she’s not big on travel these days, Olsen told the Sun she is also considering a trip to Ireland.

But thanks to the $50 million, “Maybe I can go first class.”