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My Daughter’s Secret Trick To Success
She had the mojo…
I remember a spring evening way, way back when my daughter was in high school. After a long day at work I was relaxing in “my chair.” She came into the room and sat on the coffee table in front of the chair, putting herself in the center of my vision.
“Dad, I need you to drive me somewhere on Saturday morning. The local police department is having some workshop thingie on bicycle safety. It’ll be over in the Sears parking lot across town. The thing is, the local bike shop is holding a raffle and they’re giving away a like 300 dollar mountain bike. So I need to go so that I can win that bike.”
I found it interesting how she phrased that. She was nothing but honest with her intentions and supremely confident in attaining her goals. (But when did she start having any interest in bicycling?)
Who was this person?
“You seem pretty confident that you’ll win this raffle.”
She stood up and looked down at me, “Of course I am. I know the secret trick to winning raffles.” With this she walked off to her room.
That Saturday morning my daughter and I arrived at a very crowded Sears parking lot. According to the next day’s edition of the local newspaper, attendance surpassed two hundred. I thought it was more like…
