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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