lets give it a try.

i am going to try and write a blog.  i dont know if i can make this good or worth reading.  at times i have been witty and funny- but i can also be a bastard.  i tend to be very political at times and opinionated.  i can do lots of things ok but im not that great at any of them. 

a few weeks ago, however i noticed that a company that sells work clothes, and other manly things was having a contest.  it was a fathers day contest where you write a little blurb about your dad and they they would select 2 winners to get a $200 gift card.  also, there was a 3rd winner that was to be based on votes of other contestants and friends and family of the participants.  i knew i didn't have a chance of being selected, even though i did have a few nice things to say about my dad, but i did think that i could win the voting part.  see there was only 60 or 65 entries and at the time the one with the most votes only had 20.  i have a few hundred facebook friends- surely i could annoy a few of them into voting on my blurb.  so i decided to enter this thing. 

all was well my blurb quickly took the lead in the voting.  everyday for the first few days i would check the votes, and i was ahead.  then about a week into the contest a new person entered.  quickly the new comer amassed an ass of votes.  i was still leading but at the rate they were getting votes i knew i was in trouble.  i started posting the link on facebook every couple hours begging people to vote.  started talking to people i had not talked to in years asking them to vote.  i basically became the friend selling amway.  i was the guy you try and dodge because he is gonna want a favor.  i knew i was annoying the piss out of everyone, but i was so close.

 also i started to really dislike the new comer, with all this vote getting power they had.  plus my blurb was way better... it was like the ultimate my dad can beat up your dad contest.  i read her entry and thought my dad was way better.  i mean this was a contest about how hard your dad works.  my dad honestly had flaws, we all do, but the one thing that he did was work his ass off.  seriously the man put the hours in.  worked all week plus overtime, helped friends and family with projects on the weekends if he wasnt working extra at his real job.  also let me point out when i say work i mean work.  he didnt have a desk job.  he had one of those physical jobs that makes you want to go to college and get educated so that you dont have to do a job like his job.  this girl who was competing with me had written some crap about her dad feeding stray cats- no lie.  my dad didnt kill himself for 43 years in a factory to lose a hardwork contest to some old hippie.  i was so super determined to win this thing. 

when the last day of voting came i was ahead by 12 votes.  the hippies daughter was getting like 20-30 votes each day- i knew i was goin' down.  i had to work that night so a buddy of mine stayed up to watch the last few hours of voting and keep me updated.  as the last few seconds ticked away i had lost by 6 votes.  6 little stinking stray cat feeding votes.


2 days later i get an email from the clothing company.  they said that they selected my blurb as one of the 2 winners.  they sent me the gift card and a nice letter saying that they may use my story in one of their catalogs.  i felt so vindicated.  who needs votes when you can just bang out a slamming blurb.  votes are for people without skill.....but really thanks to all the people that voted on my blurb.