Rock Bottom
I wasn't having a great time in my life when my mum tried to cheer me up by telling me she had entered me in some travel competitions. First, I broke my leg while I was running, and then a common cold turned into a scary case of pneumonia, landing me in hospital for 10 days. Finally I got the cast off my leg, but I had lost so much strength that I didn't even want to leave the house.
Loving Mum
Mum could see I wasn't coping, so she tried in her own way to help me get out of my rut. Mum has always been into competitions. Over the years, she has won all sorts of things - she was even able to win a car and win free stuff from her local shopping centre a few years ago. So she entered me in a couple of free competitions.
Shocked
Mum must have done a good job of making my sob story fit into 25 words or less, because soon I got a call telling me I had won a trip for two to Europe! She wouldn't have minded if I took my husband with the spare ticket, but I wouldn't have let Mum miss that trip for anything.