It's Tuesday. Aside from being the day we have to take our garbage up to the road for Wednesday's pick up, everyone in Hermiston knows that it is Lucky Number Day at Bi-Mart. I had forgotten this well know fact until I pulled in to the parking lot and saw the stream of seniors clumping up to the door with their walkers like battering rams in front of them. If I wasn't desperate, I would have skipped this stop on my list of errands. On Tuesday the aisles are crowded with shoppers who seem to believe that Lucky Number Day is the Hermiston equivalent of winning Powerball.
I was on a mission. A mission to load my cart with lightbulbs. After a week of the spouse complaining about the energy efficient lightbulb in the the lamp by his chair that made it impossible for him to read, I vowed to stock up on those soon to be obsolete, energy sucking lightbulbs that produce enough light for us old timers to read by.
My cart stocked with an assortment of lightbulbs, I headed through the aisles to the checkout, right by the Lucky Number poster, and
I won!!!
The last time I wrote about Lucky Number Day I didn't know a single person who had ever won. Today I became the exception to my own rule. For the first time I experienced the thrill of victory right in the middle of Bi-Mart, next to the seasonal displays of Halloween candy and pressed wood furniture .
What, you may ask, did I win? Eat your hearts out, losers...
We're having Mexican for dinner tonight!
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It's a great feeling, isn't it? I once won a laptop just by dropping my business card in a jar to take part in a draw so I know how you feel.
ReplyDeleteAll that crowding and waiting by all those people for that! Really? I mean, congrats and all that, but tortilla strips as prize?
ReplyDeleteI have to agree with Grandmother here. Hmpf! I would have expected something better. At least you WON, and that's the best part! :-)
ReplyDeleteHey, we can't all win blue chips (stocks). I have a friend who inherited some of those blue chip stocks, the rest of us have to settle for winning corn chips at the market. Congrats on your win. Think of those who did not win that day and went home so disappointed. You always seem to bring a smile to my face.
ReplyDeleteMy husband already has a stock of light bulbs in the basement. I think they will last well beyond our lifetime.
I never win anything, but I'm really lucky when it comes to finding things...especially in other people's houses...when they're on vacation!
ReplyDeleteI would eat the whole bag before it ever got to the table.
ReplyDeleteRofl @ Stephen Hayes
ReplyDeleteWhen I was about six or seven I talked my mom into entering a drawing for a washing machine at an appliance store in Downtown San Francisco. A few weeks later, right after the machine she'd just purchased was installed, she was notified that we'd won.
Oh, good for you! It matters not one whit what you won, but THAT you won!
ReplyDeleteHey, you're a winner, that's what counts. Only thing I ever won was a year's supply of Ragu spaghetti sauce ... yes, I once went on a game show.
ReplyDeleteBtw, those new light bulbs aren't so bad, once you get used to them.
Just the surprise of a win is enough to give one a rush. Enjoy your Mexican meal tonight. What are you fixing?
ReplyDeleteHa! Big Deal!
ReplyDeleteI am scoffing because I never win anything, not even a lousy free meal.
As for being the loud, bossy one: you wouldn't get far in my group. I'm neither loud nor bossy - well, I say so, anyway - but there are ways and means, ways and means, you know . . . . .
ReplyDeleteHaaaaaaaaaaaa, oh well, it may not be life changing, but still - better than receiving a poke in the eye with a sharp stick, eh? Many congratulations, bonny lass!
ReplyDeleteI am so with you on those blasted energy saving lightbulbs - I can't read anything by them, in fact I'm taking to my bed earlier and earlier these days (I have a brilliant clip on, bendy, halogen light I use).
I love irony in the world...its only when we become the snarkiest of cynical about something that we end up winning it and have to succumb to the fact that the only reason we really snubbed it is probably because we had never won it lol. Or something along those lines, you know what I mean I hope! Regardless of all that, I'm glad you didn't need a battering ram to get through (hilarious visual btw) and that you won your Mexican snack! Winning anything is the cherry on top of any day :-) Congrats!
ReplyDeleteI'll never be able to think of walkers as anything but battering rams again! Congratulations, you lucky girl.
ReplyDeleteWinning is winning, right? It's not necessarily the prize.:-)
ReplyDeleteI so know what you mean about the new light bulbs. Ugh!