Friday, February 15, 2008

XM is not immune

Chris, Alex and I are often listening to Lucy, the XM radio station, on Saturday night.  It's one of the alernative stations that we listen to anyway.  Saturdays, along with the usual alertnative stuff, you can hear  all kinds of weird songs that you probably don't know exist by bands that can't even be classified as one-hit wonders.  They also have "Cheap Prize Giveaways" ...every week brings new, cheap, stupid prizes.  This week in honor of President's Day on Monday, they had something they got at the dollar store, which was purchased with a dollar featurning George Washington's picture, your choice of Dolly Madison Zingers of Sweet Buns and a picture of the President of your choice, except for assasinated Presidents. During the evening they'd play a sound bite of Ronald Reagan and you had to be the seventh caller.  So we were driving along and they played it and I couldn't get my phone out of my pocket.  Finally I got it out and dialed and we won.  The three of us were laughing as I gave the lady answering the phone my mailing address.  I chose Zingers and Martin Van Buren, who invented the apostrophe.  They are sending me a bottle of rainbow sprinkles they got from the dollar store.  They're sending Tim, another winner, red press-on nails.  The dj kept repeating my name on the radio.  I got a big kick out of it.  It's funny how small, silly things can make me laugh.  Oh, and it was just announced that I am tonight's Grand Prize Winner!  I get pictures of all the assasinated Presidents.  How 'bout that?  My lucky dialing finger continues to exert it's magic, even over satellite radio.

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