The words, “totally free”, may have got your attention, at least I hope so. Is there anything that is totally free? In this case, the answer could be, yes. Could you believe that in an attempt to attract more readers, “The Ford Homestead Foundation to increase Blog readership”, is establishing a contest.
You might ask, “If there were such a contest, what would the prize be? Believe it or not, a totally free, one week trip to the city of your choice (within the 48 contiguous states). I know it is hard to believe that, “The Ford Homestead” would offer such a gift to one of its readers.
Would you believe this one time offer includes air travel plus a hotel room and $500.00 cash to spend as you see fit. Can you believe, the winner would be able to use this award any time within a twelve month period?
Why would “The Ford Homestead” consider doing this? As stated earlier, “The Ford Homestead” is attempting to increase our readership, and what would draw attention from our present readers more than a contest with an unbelievable gift.
Would you believe, all someone needs to do to get their name in the drawing is to, “have a new reader send his / her email address to be added to the mailing list along with your name.
Can you believe, for each new subscriber you will have one entry into the contest. We must limit the number of entries per present reader to ten (10). We would like to at least double if not triple our readership. If we double our reader ship we would have two (2) readers and if we triple it we would have three (3) readers.
Believe it or not, this offer will go through midnight January 31st, 3015.
See official rules for this event below.
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Different subject:
I was again reminded that there is a group of people that don’t seem to care about anyone other than themselves, or they enjoy making others’ lives miserable. As I contemplate this topic, I have concluded that there may be another reason for their actions, and that is, they want to be the focus of attention and this is the only way they know to get it.
Let us first consider being in the checkout line at a store. This person is always in front of you, and has not been in a hurry for years. This person knows they have a coupon for 25 cents off and they are going through a handful of coupons to find it. Anyone in line behind this person would gladly give then the 25 cents just to get the line moving.
Coupon found and the clerk scans it. The final cost is $10.47. This person hands the clerk a ten dollar bill and is now going through their change purse. This person hands the clerk a quarter (.25), a dine (.35), a nickel (.40), another nickel (.45) and one, two three pennies (.47 cents).
The clerk puts the money in the cash register and hands the person a receipt. This person now replaces the coupons, the change purse and the receipt into the purse. The purse and the bag of items are placed in the cart and this person is finally on their way.
Now let us consider what I had to put up with this morning when dropping Gabi off at school.
We turned into the school drive and immediately saw a very long line of vehicles, there to drop the kids off at school. The school normally has three teachers outside to help the kids get out of the vehicles, which greatly reduces the wait time. They must have a rule for the teachers, if it is a certain temperature the teachers do not have to be outside, and today they were not there which obviously increased the wait time.
Gabi and I had worked our way up to about fourth in line. A female subject stops her SUV, opens the door and gets out. She then opens the door for her child and helps the child out. She then put the child’s back pack on and gives the kid a kiss. All the vehicles in line were watching this travesty.
There is a rule that the kids are supposed to disembark on the curb side of the vehicle, which this person chose to ignore, allowing her child to walk around the vehicle on the traffic side. This female subject re-entered her vehicle and took her own sweet time getting her seat belt on, then finally reaching for and shutting the vehicle door.
I am wondering if this type personality just don’t care about other people, or do they not get any attention at home or at work, and use these methods to get their few minutes in the spot light?
Whatever the reason, it is annoying to me.
Let’s try to be nice to those people!
Don Ford
Contest Rules:
Void where prohibited by law, void in all 48 contiguous states. You may have noticed that I stated, “would you believe, or, believe it or not”. If I were you I would not believe it. If you are observant you may have noticed the not real contest was to go through Jan. 31st, 3015, one thousand years from now. The contest or event was all fiction, an outright lie, false, not real.
Thanks for reading this, and I would still like a few new readers.
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