I am a winner!

So, if you have read my blog at all, you know that I am generally an unlucky person. When I buy something, I can pretty much plan on it being defective, missing parts or broken. Or the wrong color, or not what I ordered, etc. I know that everyone cannot have the same luck, or e-commerce would have become extinct years ago. My attitude about is all is that I am just surprised when something actually works out!

I do not remember ever having won anything. Like in a raffle or drawing or contest. Never. Ever. Even bingo I will sit there with like 4 ALMOST bingos on my card, and the one number I need will stay in the cage while everyone wins all around me.

But today my life changed. We are in Seattle for the Rock N Roll half-marathon tomorrow. We went to the expo to pick up our race bibs and man-shirts (which I will need to tailor when I get home). Brooks has a big circus cavalcade exhibit where they have games, prizes, do gait analysis on treadmills, and everyone gets a ticket with a barcode. Then you go get your barcode scanned at the prize table and find out what you won.

Everyone was getting a water bottle, knit hat, cheap bag or a lucky few got t-shirts. I handed over my ticket fully expecting to hear, "Congratulations on your new bandana." Instead, the ticket lady started jumping and shouting "You won free shoes! You won free shoes." I started laughing, totally thinking she was kidding. But she wasn't.

I went over and tried on several pairs of Brooks shoes at the expo store, and I just had to tell them which ones, and they ordered them and are shipping them to my house. Crazy!

Really? $120 shoes? Me?

I will believe it when they show up.