This is a slightly different post as I was tickled by this news story today. It has all of the elements of every conversation that most people in Spain have every day, swine flu, crisis and lotteries. Where to start?
Last week the Euromillones draw was held with an absolutely scandalous first prize for a single winning ticket which was estimated to be around 110 million Euros. So many tickets were bought that the actual prize when won went to a single ticket bought in Spain and it amounted to 126 Million Euros. (How many houses for sale in Spain could that buy the winner?)
Anyway the draw was made on Friday and speculation started about the winner's identity centering on Madrid where the ticket was supposedly bought. However it wasn't. It was actually bought online in Mallorca but validated in the Madrid office automatically.
Nobody came forward to claim the prize though. It turns out that the winner was a 25 year old woman from Mallorca and here is where the other elements of the story mesh. She had sent all weekend in bed with the flu and didn't know she had won. The only way she found out was that she actually went into work on Monday still feeling awful because with so many redundancies in Spain recently she didn't want her employer to target her, thus bringing in the crisis and the human interest angle too.
Here is the kicker though. It was only when she checked her email that she found out she had won. Now far be it from me to doubt something but every time I get an email telling me I have won 10 million or so on a lottery I immediately delete it. Maybe I have been missing out on something over all these years. From now on I will pay more attention to these notifications and the Nigerian letter scams.
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