05/15/01
The strange winning streak continues.
I arrived home yesterday after work to find the light on the answering machine flashing, and eagerly scampered over to listen. I get few messages, and any calls are some cause for celebration.
The voice on the machine is Heidi Meinders, calling from my favorite salon supply vendor, to let me know that I am the winner* of a $100 gift certificate to their store, and also to remind me that my special order of Almond Spice tanning creme is in stock.
Last week, I put my name and phone number into their contest box, not even knowing the prize to be awarded. I was only there to buy some Redken products to use on clients, since they were featuring a 10% discount on all purchase made that day, and as much as I love my clients, I'm not paying retail price to make them pretty. (If they wanna pay retail price, that is entirely their business.)
I called up Carol at work and told her the news, asking her what she wanted as a treat. She told me to surprise her, so I bought her some PPT (a protein treatment for the hair), since she was talking the other day about how much she wanted to buy some, but never had the time to make it to a supply house. She too refuses to pay retail.
Saturday, the Babbler asked if he could use my can of Guts (a spray volumizing foam -- like a mousse that you don't have to put in your hands to apply) on his client's hair. I told him sure, since it was just one person. For the remainder of the day, he used my Guts, without asking, on every single person who sat in his chair. I was too busy to pick a fight, and decided to approach him about it later. Not only does he babble, but he mooches.
I bought another can of Guts, and have decided to tell him that he can keep mine, since he's used most of it anyways.
And don't think that I didn't spend most of the rest of that gift certificate on myself. Yummy bath gel, and delicious lotion, and hair thingies, and nail polish, and two bottles of tanning creme, and a straightening iron to use at home, and some other stuff.
I only bought a few things for use on the public. Well, okay maybe about $40 worth of things, but I couldn't pass up some new combs and clips, Traction (spray styling wax), the aforementioned Guts, and a can of Airtight (a nice protective hairspray).
Hey, it's my free money.
*According to Heidi, sometimes when they have a drawing, they will go through and select entries at random, discarding them until they find someone that they don't hate, and then they give that person the prize.
Strangely, though, when Heidi pulled out the first entry, it had my name on it, and she and Erica both like me, so I was gold.
How's that for fortuitous? The odds are fairly good that I might have ended up winning by default, but I actually ended up winning the real way -- dumb random luck.
This is the first cool thing I have won in the last year**.
**Previous prizes that I have won in the last year include a copy of VH1's The List Book (that I never sent away for), a cd single from L'il Bow Wow, and another cd by a band I've never heard of, both from the WB. No, I can't win the leather backpack with the autographed Dawson's Creek script -- imagine how much that sucker'd go for on Ebay, or a collection of Hard Candy cosmetics; I only win their crappy cd giveaways.
