Jocelyn Schifferdecker, religion/mass communications freshman, won a brand new 2019 Ford Fiesta in a raffle.
Bob Moore Ford and Oklahoma Blood Institute annually partner up for a one car giveaway for blood donors.
“So I gave blood, and I guess my name got entered in a drawing,” Schifferdecker said. “And I actually didn’t answer the call at first because it was an unknown number. They kept calling, so I answered. Five finalists got to go to the dealership. Everybody chose a key, and if your key started the car, you got the car. My key started the car; lucky number three.”
Schifferdecker said the other finalists were a girl from Oklahoma Christian University, a family from Owasso, an elderly man, and another man who didn’t initially attend.
“One of the people actually didn’t show up, and then he showed up later, and he was yelling at the people at the dealership that they didn’t give him a chance,” Schifferdecker said. “So I got kind of scared by that for a minute.”
Schifferdecker went to the dealership with her boyfriend, Jeremiah Olsen, for the key drawing.
“I didn’t go down that Saturday because I didn’t think she’d actually win,” said Stacey Schifferdecker, Jocelyn’s mom. “He texted me that she won, and I didn’t believe it; I told him, ‘You’re messing with me. She didn’t really win.’”
Schifferdecker said she didn’t know what to do with her two cars at first, but after discussing it with her mom, she decided to sell her old car to her friend. She said her friend visits her a lot, and she is setting up a payment plan.
“My friend has a terrible car,” Schifferdecker said. “Two cars, it’s like ‘first world problems.’ Not even a first world, like negative one world problem. It was my interesting fact for all of my classes the first day.”
Schifferdecker said her old car has multiple operating issues. She said it has a broken air conditioner and makes worrying sounds when driving. Stacey Schifferdecker said the new car makes her more comfortable in regard to her daughter’s safety.
“It’s going to make her safer,” said Stacey Schifferdecker. “Her old car was twelve years old. Now, I feel confident that her car’s not going to die on her.”
Schifferdecker said she still has trouble believing she actually won the car.
“My family never wins anything, like even those super cheap little raffles that 20 would enter and there were like 15 prizes; wouldn’t win anything,” Schifferdecker said. “I don’t think I have any luck in the future. I think it’s gone. I’m sure I’ll rebuild some luck, but as for winning drawings and stuff, I probably shouldn’t gamble because I’m not going to be lucky with that. I think I used it all for at least five years.”
Both Stacey Schifferdecker and Olsen said Schifferdecker is a very charitable person. Stacey Schifferdecker said their family serves food at a homeless shelter every New Years’, and her daughter has historically been, and plans to continue to be, an active volunteer in her communities.
“I think it was a really cool situation. It’s really cool how donating blood, we had the chance to win a car and give people a chance to help out their community,” Olsen said. “She’s still going to be the same person, she’s still going to help out her community a lot; she’s still going to be an amazing person.”
Olsen said he and Schifferdecker may plan to travel in the new car, which Stacey Schifferdecker said has multiple functions which the old car did not, such as a backup camera.
“I still don’t believe it,” Schifferdecker said. “I don’t think I’ll ever believe it.”
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