Wow, So Unexpected.

So tomorrow the new Rascal Flatts cd comes out. Are you all as excited as I am? I have been waiting for it since seeing them in concert in November. I love their music. Every one of their cds rock.

Our local radio station advertised all last week that today you could "Win Rascal Flatts Before You Can Buy It". Sweet. I was totally going to listen and win. I remembered to turn the radio on as soon as I got out of bed this morning.

So I'm chatting with Greg about something and not really paying attention when I hear Radio Dude say, "Caller 15 wins the prize". I get all excited and started dialing, then redialing. I get through on the second try! I won! The following is our conversation:

Radio Dude: Hi! Who is this?

Me: Emily!

Radio Dude: Well, congratulations! You are the fifteenth caller!

Me: Yay!!!!!!

Radio Dude: Emily, are you a NASCAR Fan?

*pause*

Me: Um..............yeah. (TOTAL LIE)

Radio Dude: Great! You just got entered to win our grand prize trip to beautiful Phoenix, Arizona for the NASCAR Blah Blah Blah! (I didn't hear anything after NASCAR)

*pause*

Me: Fantastic! (TOTAL LIE)

Radio Dude: You've also won a footlong sub from Subway Sandwiches!

Me: Great! (Still trying to process the information)

At this point it is not on the air yet. Greg is grinning at me from ear to ear. He still doesn't realize that I haven't won my highly-desired Rascal Flatts cd. I give him sad, defeated eyes.

I hang up the phone. Greg congratulates me and I tell him that he is going to laugh SOOO hard when he hears what I actually won. He isn't into NASCAR either and I just KNOW he is going to make fun of me for the rest of my life for this. I ask him what is the ONE thing we love to make fun of. He goes through a long list, mentioning Shania Twain two times (We REALLY enjoy making fun of her). He does not, however guess NASCAR.

My little convo with Radio Dude finally comes on the air. Greg hears the word NASCAR and busts up laughing. He didn't stop all morning long.

Since I was in a state of shock, I wasn't really listening to Radio Dude when he told me all about what I could win. I checked it out online this afternoon. Turns out the grand prize is two airline tickets to Phoenix, Deluxe Hotel Accomodations (whatever that means) $92 cash per person, two tickets to TWO NASCAR races plus pit passes for both races.

The website also says, "Country Music and NASCAR go together like Tim and Faith!" Um, this is why country music has a bad reputation. It is married to NASCAR. Tim and Faith I like. NASCAR? Not so much. And besides that, I don't think that is a good analogy. NASCAR can't be married to NASCAR when it is the Ugly Stepchild of country music. Or can it? *insert inbreeding joke here*

If I win the grand prize I am not sure what I will do. I could give the tickets to Greg's sister and her husband. They actually LIKE NASCAR, for whatever reason. They aren't even rednecks! They DID just get back from a big NASCAR thingy in Vegas though, so maybe they are NASCARed out. I could give them to someone who would love to go who otherwise wouldn't be able to. (but I don't really know any huge NASCAR fans, do you?) I could auction them off. Greg and I could actually GO. If we do, I am definitely buying the shirt at the right. I'm sure we wouldn't get beat up or anything.

So yes. It is Monday and I have already learned a lesson. Don't call into the radio station when you don't know what you are trying to win. And if you DO, ask if you can have a Rascal Flatts cd anyway. I didn't and wished that I did. Now I have to go shell out the kizash. Oh, well.

Anyone like NASCAR?