So this weekend, I was drinking a soda.
What kind? Doesn’t matter. Diet Mountain Dew if it helps you paint the word-picture.
Anyway, it was a 20 ounce bottle of the stuff. As I was finishing it up, reaffixing the cap, and preparing to huck it into the nearest garbage can, my wife asks me “Did you win anything?”
My first instinct was to say, “What, like… ever?” Instead I looked down at the bottle. Sure enough, it was blazoned with an ad for a ‘look under the cap’ contest.
So I looked under the cap. I won a jersey.
Cool. Wife inordinately pleased that her reminder had led to this reward, but still cool.
So I dropped the cap into my jacket pocket and tossed the bottle — the cap itself was printed with the website for the contest.
Monday. I’m out of the house, at a computer, and am dutifully following the instructions on the website (which I’d already looked up on Sunday). Fill out 3x5 card with info, put card in padded envelope, put cap (still in the pocket of my jacket) in padded envelope. Mail. Piece of cake.
There’s just one little problem.
When I got back to the house yesterday afternoon, the winning cap was on my desk, right where I’d left it after I’d pulled it out of my pocket on Sunday to read off the website address.
But I dropped it in the envelope…
Well, I dropped something in the envelope that felt like a soda bottle cap when I found it in my pocket, anyway.
Someone’s going to have solid proof that I’m an idiot in seven to ten business days.
