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Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Weekly Contest Winner - Week 4

Congratulations to Tom, our Week 4 winner. Congratulations Tom! Here's his story:

Back in my college days, I had one of the weirdest, most awkward moments I've ever had in my life. We were at a typical college birthday party when my friend who was sober and I, who was a little buzzed, found ourselves hungry and decided to get some burritos at around 11:15pm (nighttime) or so. So we left the birthday party to go to a familiar little taco shop down the street with outdoor seating that we always went to.

It seemed like a typical night, we ordered our food, got our burritos, and found a table to sit down. Then we started eating. After a few minutes of regular chit chat, everything was normal up until this point when all of a sudden out of nowhere, literally out from behind the bushes this short little middle-aged-looking Japanese lady just appears out of nowhere, greets us with a bow and immediately with a very thick Japanese accent, she starts talking about family values and divorce rates in America.

I was thinking "What the heck?" the entire time she was talking as I couldn't understand most of what she was saying because she talked extremely fast and I had a few beers in me.

Apparently, she was from some charity or something called "family 'something' world 'something' federation," I don't remember too clearly. Anyway, after she was done with her three minute speech, she sets this big black briefcase on our table and opened it to show us what looked like jewelry from a local 99 cent store and asked for a donation. It was apparently a donation to help promote world peace.

There was an awkward silence of about 5 seconds, the longest 5 seconds ever. I was still just thinking "what in the hell?!" when I looked at my friend and he had the blankest look on his face that I probably have ever seen on him. Then my friend snapped out of it and said he spent all his cash on his burrito. When she looked at me, I felt the urge to give her a dollar for some reason. Maybe it was because of her effort, I don't know why. I ended up buying the best looking two dollar bracelet she had. After she was done with us, she approached a group of dudes sitting two tables down from us. It was hilarious watching the expressions on their faces. Then she left with some guy in a Honda and saw her go across the street into a local Jack-In-The-Box to do her presentation to the people in there.

I later justified my purchase as a donation helping to promote world peace as well as I was buying a gift for my girlfriend at the time. I gave her both the bracelet and the story of how I acquired the bracelet and it was very well-received.


That particular event that happened that night ranks as one of the strangest most random thing to ever happen to me. I mean who does that at 11:30pm at night?--seriously? and of all places, a tiny little outdoor taco shop?

by: Executive Gift Shoppe