26-year-old Jonathan Svensson was just going to buy macaroni for dinner. Then he won one million.
Jonathan Svensson (26) went to Rema 1000 Nattland on Monday to buy macaroni, sausages and milk – and as usual took the full deposit bag with him.
Svensson is a personal assistant in two different positions of 20 per cent, alongside studying Networks and administration. His girlfriend, Thea Heggren Aasheim, is a nurse.
There was a queue at the deposit machine which accepts whole bags and counts the bottles for you.
Svensson therefore went to the manual deposit machine, deposited NOK 62 and pressed the Red Cross button.
– There was no sound that there was a winning ticket, only from the receipt that was printed, says Svensson and continues:
– I took a couple of steps into the store before I saw the note and was completely taken aback. Is it 1000? No, 10,000? Fifty cats, that’s 100,000. No, it’s a damn one million!
Svensson called straight to his girlfriend, who struggled to believe him.
– I stood and cried a little and trembled in the shop, why should I joke about it, says Svensson, who had run out of 4G on his mobile phone and could not send photo proof.
He had his girlfriend on the phone all the way to the checkout,
– When I showed the note to the cashier, she just said “oh”, he says.
– Has it sunk in a bit?
– It has sunk in a bit. I got a call that the money was on its way and must have checked the account 200 times. Now I’ve got the money in my account and I know I’ve won, says Svensson.
The money will be used to realize the house dream at home in Bømlo – and a holiday trip to Alicante in February.
General manager Thorbjørn Fosse of the Hordaland Red Cross states that the Lottery has become one of the Red Cross’ most important sources of income, and the Red Cross teams in Hordaland received a total of NOK 6.37 million last year.
– Last year we bought, among other things, an emergency boat which is fully operational and which covers the whole of Hordaland. Last year they had 22 missions and were active for close to 9,000 hours, he says.
– The funds also mean that we can have 190 different activities here in Hordaland. It would not have been possible without the support we receive from all those who give us their pledge, says Fosse.
