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Years ago, a local bank held a drawing for a big nice TV to celebrate their grand opening. The entry period ran for a week starting on Monday with the drawing to be done late Friday afternoon. I decided to go in every single day and enter a few times. Oh, how I wanted to win stuff like the woman I read about in Woman’s Day magazine.
Each day I went in I tried being as inconspicuous as possible as I wasn’t one hundred percent sure I could enter more than once. I read every word of the short sign but nothing was there on how many times one could enter. Even though I felt confident with my decision on doing multiple entries, I still wanted to be cautious.
On Thursday when I walked in, I noticed the bank lobby was unusually quiet and empty. I grabbed my usual allotment of entry forms and slid over to the end of the counter. As I wrote, I became acutely aware of the scratchy sound of my pen as I rushed to put my information on the forms.
Suddenly I had that feeling – the one you get when you know someone is staring at you. I abruptly stopped writing and I turned my eyes up to look out across my glasses. I noticed that a lone teller was peering in my direction. To make matters worse, I happened to also notice that the bank camera at that time was pointing directly at me! Nonetheless, I finished the forms as fast as possible, hurriedly deposited them in the box and rushed out the door to my waiting car.
Even though the stress was taking a toll on me, I had to see the process through. I knew my chances went up with every entry. After all, what could they really do to me if I wasn’t suppose to be entering all those times – arrest me? I could picture the headlines in the paper, “Woman arrested for entering bank contest more than once.
That Friday, I strolled in as usual, grabbed a couple of entry forms and filled them out standing at my usual place. When I turned to drop them in the box I noticed the freshly lettered sign, “Only ONE entry per person.” Nope, I didn’t win. I just know the bank employees took all my entries out of the box and burned them – just to teach me a lesson!
© 2008 by Stephanie Faulkner, Durham, NC
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