Spain’s Christmas lottery distributes billions of euros in winnings. No wonder that the Spaniards are in front of the draw out of the house. And after? A lot of things, but not everything changes.
If the Manolo to the 22. December thinks back two years ago, overtakes him goose bumps still. “That’s something you were expecting,” he recalls of his win in the Christmas lottery. “Then it happens to you, a week goes by, and you can’t believe it still.”
Manolo has been working for 46 years in the market hall of Lavapies, a district in Madrid. Here he operates a booth with meat and sausages. His specialties are chops from Avila, milk-fed lamb and sheep’s milk cheese from Valladolid.
On that Thursday, telling Manolo that he had just come from the doctor. “As a neighbor said to me: Have You heard? A friend of Josito has pulled the Gordo. And I asked: Josito? Then I have the lot! My son was with me, said: what nonsense! But when he saw that I really had the right number, he jumped with joy on top of me!”
The Spanish Christmas lottery knows no girl who presents Lotto. Here the children are singing the winning numbers.
No reason not to work
Manolo is not the only one who has won here in the market hall. But because of prosperity, no one has closed here since then. What is due to the fact that a lucky ticket alone still makes not have to be a millionaire. From the 400.000 Euro profit a fifth of their taxes go. Manolo 320,000 euros remained ultimately left. After all.
that is Why Manolo is still working in the market hall. “Although I have won the lottery. But I gave the money to my children, in order to pay off their apartment. So it was gone. Well, a little bit I laid on my back for old age.”
In the coming year, wants to put Manolo to rest. Then here is the blood sausage and pork chop are going to sell. But Manolo will continue to buy a lot of the Christmas lottery, with its regular pay. He knows that it is unlikely that he once again draws the jackpot. But to have it once experienced, this memory alone is priceless. That, he says, was the most Beautiful thing that had happened to him in the past 40 years. “In the time before that it was the woman who I found.”
These balls winner to make a controller looks at before the Start of the lottery thoroughly.
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