As usual, I am a peculiar little lady and I have a need to read the boxes of my food comprehensively as I chew.
I read on the back of the box:
"Enter Online For Your Chance to Win!
www.littledebbie.com
[insert airplane picture here]
Celebrating 50 years of great taste and value!
Enter "The Great American Getaway," and you could win...2 roundtrips to any AirTran Airways destination in the continental United States, and a $200 cash card..."
What?! Seriously...? It's "The Great American Getaway" and we only get a $200 cash card with our roundtrips? What a rip-off! Okay, pause, before you say, "My, my! Crystal! What a spoiled little child you are; some people would really appreciate this" - I must defend myself by stating that I am not spoiled (thank you) and I do realize that this would come especially handy for college students such as myself...or any other average American. And YES, I do have another point I want to make.
I kept thinking to myself, would it be worth it to enter? I mean...what can you really do with $200? And then I bring myself back to the age-old saying quoted by many, many heroic figures, "Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by what you bring to life." Ah, yes...
We Americans can find it rather easy to blow $200, especially on vacation. If we win this sweepstakes by Little Debbie, life has given us $200. We would go out to eat, buy some cool souvenirs, grab some Italian ice on that cart nearby...the money could disappear in a day and then we don't have enough! But why? Why should we spend it on something as trivial as food? Of course we need nourishment but why not just go to the local grocery store and get some cheap food there? Why can't we find more delightful and tantalizing ways to spend the money? Let's bring something to life through the money - even if selfishly! Look up some odd attractions to where you visit - spend your money there. Do something more fulfilling and whimsical. It will certainly be more fulfilling than food, at least in the long run. If you do something like this, then the little $200 can go a loooong way.
And so, upon this thought, I decided to enter the sweepstakes. I pull up www.littledebbie.com...and I see the sweepstakes ended in may. DAMN. Just my luck. Well, now I'm prepared for the next sweepstakes with my contemplation of entering already thought out :).
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