So lately, I’ve been on a winning streak. You see, I have this weird lucky thing with those radio call in contests. I ALWAYS win when I call. ALWAYS. In NY, I stopped calling because one of the guys at the local station called me a “prize pig” for winning so much shit (a friend of mine, said in jest).
So, I’ve been in my new state for about 6 months (NC) and I listen to a rock station. Last month I won tickets to see…
THE EAGLES
Concert of a lifetime, I kid you not. Unreal. Don Henley sounded great, Glen Fry was on like Donkey Kong, and Joe Walsh was fucked up like a soup sandwich and crazy mad guitar playing.
So tonight I was driving home from a friends house and I heard a call in contest. Win a grilling prize pack of some sort and be entered into a drawing for a $500 Webber gas grill. So I called, and naturally, I won the prize pack. They were giving the grill away at 10pm, so I tuned in to hear the winner.
Me. I am the luckiest SOB I know, I swear it. Ever since I met my husband I started winning things- a huge (the kind you can’t fit in the car) bear at the State Fair, $2,000 at Bingo, countless CDs, concert tickets, shirts, beach shit- you name it, I’ve won it. Money, raffles, 50/50 drawings.
Mr. Butrscotch and I recently defied the odds. I won the $3,000 first prize in a slot tournament the last week in March, and then exactly one week later, on April 1st Mr. Butrscotch turned around and won a $2,000 first prize in another slot tournament. The family wouldn’t believe he’d won till he showed them the money. He’s like you. He ALWAYS wins.
So you’re the one hogging all my luck! I’ve never won a damned thing in my whole life. No wait, I did win lunch for two at a local hotel. It was at the new teacher’s welcome luncheon and it was the absolute last prize they gave away. Everyone else had already won something, there was no way I couldn’t ‘win’. So how does it feel, this luck you’ve stolen from me? Plus, conga rats on the newest prize.
I was the 15th caller, and won the Framption Comes Alive on vinyl the very first time I tried. Since then (more than 25 years), all I get when I call is a busy signal.
Rue, that is my absolute FAVORITE line from Babe. I weep when it gets to that part. No really, I do.
I recently one a free night stay at an Embassy Suites. My coworker told me he knew I’d win, because I have super luck. He says that because at a picnic 3 years ago, I won the grand prize of 2 round trip air tickets anywhere in the US.
Honestly, those are really the only 2 things I’ve ever won. Ever!
So, just an update: I gave the grill to my friends that live nearby who have promised to cook for me
(I already have a grill here at my house that runs on natural gas) I also went by the station and picked up the rest of my prize pack- an apron, a t-shirt, a hat, a REALLY nice wood handled bar-b-que utensil set, a long mitt for grilling, and a cookbook for grilling.
Plus, conga rats on the newest prize.