Winning a Raffle
There aren’t many better feelings than winning a raffle. Some people seem to be luckier than others in this category, but if you are on the winning side, it’s a great feeling. Ask anyone who has ever played even a scratch of lottery ticket. If you win something, you do a little jig and are grinning from ear to ear. This last week, I won a raffle that was worth over $300. Let me set the scene.
If you didn’t know, Chick-fil-A restaurants have huge celebrations for their grand openings. The first 100 people in line win free Chick-fil-A for a year. Translated, you get 52 combo meal coupons, which adds up to over $300. The first time I learned about this was when our community had a Chick-fil-A move in almost 3 years ago now. I saw the balloons and blown up cow that day, and after inquiring, I had packed a bag to camp out over night and win some free chicken! 3 years ago, it was easy to make it in this line, but with increased saturation in our area, you have to camp out earlier and earlier.
So, when a Chick-fil-A opened in Mason, OH last week, we went to camp out 2 whole nights before the store opened!!! There was a woman there who gave out stickers to everyone who showed up early, but it was an unofficial counting. When the official employees showed up 24 hours before the store opening, there were over 200 people there waiting in line! After some deliberation, the Chick-fil-A employee stated that everyone was going to get a raffle ticket, despite if you had been there earlier than others. For my 13 friends and I, we were completely disheartened because we were all in the first 100.
So, everyone got a red raffle ticket. The stub went into a container and they started drawing. Normally in these situations, I resolve in my mind that I am not going to win so as not to get my hopes up. Just when this process was completing in my head, my ticket number was called at #34. Woo hoo! Just as I said, I did a little jig and went to register for my free chicken.
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