Kelly Smith was tempted to ignore the phone call telling her she’d won £500 in a P&J competition.
The 48-year-old was at work, looking after 40 children at the Mile End School breakfast club, when she was told live on Original 106’s breakfast show she was the lucky recipient of a fantastic cash prize.
Each copy of the Press and Journal last week had a different north-east landmark printed on its front page.
All readers had to do for a chance of winning was register their details online, along with the landmark and a special code unique to each paper, then cross their fingers and wait to hear if their entry had been selected at random.
Mrs Smith, of Aberdeen, said: “I wasn’t expecting it at all.
“My phone went off and I saw it was an Aberdeen number, but I thought it was going to be a cold caller, like someone asking if I’d been in a car accident that wasn’t my fault.
“I was really shocked when I picked up and it was Claire and David and they told me I was live on the radio.”
Mrs Smith is planning to exchange her prize into Euros and pack it away as spending money, ready for a holiday of a lifetime to Disneyland Paris with her husband Steve and six-year-old daughter Maisie.
She added: “It was quite funny and an amazing surprise for a Monday morning in January.
“To get £500 just like that is fantastic.”
Later in the week Arthur Wyllie from Aberdeen and John Gunn from Inverurie won £500 each.
Lucy Prentice from Drumlithie found herself live on Claire and David’s Big Breakfast winning £400, while Margo Milne from Bridge of Don picked up £750.
