soy un perdedor. no, really.
December 16th, 2005 § 2 Comments
…’cuz i certainly ain’t a winner.
witness: as a child, i thought i was a really great colorer [colorer (n.): one who colors]. so i would enter the coloring contests at perkins, hoping against hope that someone would recognize my artistic talent and give me a free breakfast (or whatever the prize was). but no, they bypassed my beautiful coloring job and instead chose MY SISTER. (i can’t remember what she won but it’s moot really.)
witness: remember when you were a kid and pizza hut had those gi-normous stockings with all the games and toys inside? as a 7-year old – or however old i was; it all runs together sometimes, musta been the drugs – me and my sisters enter to win this wonderful stocking. and my sister wins.
witness: i take a couple friends with me to “chicks rock fest” this past april at southgate house. good times had by all. they had a raffle, which my friends and i enter, but i didn’t pay much attention to, since i wouldn’t win anything anyway (as i never do). and i probably WOULDN’T have paid much attention, either, if one of them hadn’t won a bunch of books, and the other one hadn’t won an electric guitar. ffs.
so i went to my company christmas party last night….yee-haw. it’s not that i don’t like my co-workers, because i do, but i tend to just go to work and go home. i went because they were giving out all sorts of door prizes, and my friend steve won a $150 gift certificate to the waterfront restaurant last year…a most excellent jeff ruby restaurant, if i do say so myself. i didn’t know what the actual prizes were this year, but i figured if what steve won last year was any indication, then it might be worth my while to go and see if i might be able to win something. i should have known better.
the only thing on my christmas list this year is an ipod. that is all i want. so, when one of the prizes that came up was a $400 gift certificate to Best Buy (an electronics/music/appliances store), i was crossing my fingers with my eyes screwed tight and focusing all of my concentration on that 60gb ipod for $399. all i kept thinking was that this prize has my name written all over it. no one in the WORLD wants an ipod more than i do, so i HAVE to win. it’s a given, right? “HA HA HAHAHAHAAAA!!!!” (<—-right there, that’s fate, having a laugh.)
now let me preface by saying that the law firm i work for employs over 500 people and occupies almost 8 full floors of this building. we’re a big law firm, as law firms go, and i don’t know very many people outside of my department. so fate, that fucker, kicked in when the woman that won the gift certificate (and my ticket to my very own music iBaby) has to be the ONLY PERSON that i can see when i look out of my cube.
so not only do i NOT win anything, it smacks me in the face on a regular basis.
sam, maybe you’d better play the lottery by yourself. heh.
I love you my dear sister, but let’s be real here. I never win anything either. I didn’t win the coloring contest, I didn’t win the stocking, when I play Project Entropia…do you know how many times the guy/girl beside me gets a hof/global (a LARGE amount of money for killing/making something), and I’m constantly getting maybe $.50 if I’m lucky?
It’s not fate, it’s just plain crappy luck. So quit yer bitchin and keep trying.
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