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“Do you really think you can pick a winner that way?”

I turned around to see a woman standing behind me. I was in the process of picking my winning bottle of Mountain Dew for the day. “I haven’t lost yet. Over thirty and counting,” I replied.

She seemed slightly annoyed by my actions. “Well, tough,” was my thought on the matter. I continued to sort through the bottles trying to find a winner as she stood by another cooler and watched.

Normally, I would keep looking until I found a winner. Normally, it doesn’t take me more than about 4 tries. Today was different. “Come on, let someone else win,” complained the woman. She was really starting to annoy me now.

“There are still plenty of winners,” I replied. I really wanted her to go away by now. The clerks never seem to care. Did this woman think she was the Pepsi Police or something? I tried another bottle or two and gave up. I would have kept trying, but I just couldn’t with her standing there. I went back to one of the “Buy 1 Get 1 Free” bottles I had put back earlier. At least next time I will be able to get 2 winners to make up for my “loss” today.