A New Grocery Store....and a BIG win!

 Was on my way home from work today (which is a 50 minute drive)

and our local radio station was doing a remote at our local A&P which has recently
become a 'Metro' as are all the A&P's in Ontario I guess.
Well he announced that the next person in who could correctly answer his
question would win $250 in gift cards for the new store.

I listened as a lucky lady won, and then another and then he announced that
the next prize would be $500 worth of gift cards!!!!!
I hmmm....and haaaaa'd and decided I would at least drive by and see how
busy they were...thinking that it would be crazy in there about now!
There weren't alot of cars around but I just kept driving anyway thinking
I'd never win and I really didn't want to push through a throng of people...
I'm just not that agressive, lol!

Almost half way to home from town the announcer came on at 2:55 and said
the big giveaway was happening just minutes after 3....so I hmmmmm'd and haaaa'd
again and actually turned around and went back into town.

I roamed around awhile, really surprised that there weren't more people in there!!
I heard him tell two other ladies that it would be around 3:18 when he went on
air again with the question. I stayed close and when he said you had to find Ted
and find out how long he'd worked there...I was off!
The first guy I asked wasn't Ted and looked at me funny when I asked his name, lol!!
So I asked a cashier who had been there for years where I might find Ted
and she pointed him out walking across the back of the store!

Ted told me he'd been there 24 years and when I told the announcer that
he asked me how I'd gotten that so quickly, lol..he thought maybe I knew Ted!
I WON!!! Yep, $500 worth of groceries and who doesn't need groceries,
especially with 5 people at home and one at college who could
really use a gift card for food, lol!

Crazy, crazy, crazy it was and you can't imagine how thankful I was
that I had changed my mind and turned around!!!

I think the next time that I try to push something aside and say ahhhh
never mind, that I will remember this win and go out of my way to take advantage
of any opportunity that might come my way, no matter how ridiculous it feels or looks