TOY: offroad expo

["brandon naves" <im4boardin@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

  So, did anybody else think it was packed at the expo?
It was great, I even got my dad to go.  One of the first things I did was 
enter the drawing to the left, and wouldn't you know it, 15 minutes later 
they were calling my name on the intercom.
  I made my way back to the table to pick up my prize to be, and the young 
girl behind the desk said I had won a Steering box brace.  Like I cared 
about that.  So I figured, here I come Ebay.  She leaves for 15 minutes to 
get me some certificate, and upon return, says I need to find booth number 
708, and pick it up there.  I finally found it, but it ended up being the 
Currie (jeep) booth.  And the guy there told me I had to go back to where I 
was to pick up my prize.
  So I wandered back over to the drawing desk, and the brace was sitting 
right there in front of the girl.  The label on it read "jeep cj."  I told 
her I had a Toyota, hoping she would give me something else.  She said I had 
to make my way back to Currie, and talk it over with them.
  Later I came back and told the girl that they didn't offer any parts for 
my truck.  So she took off for another ten minutes to see if they could give 
me something else.  Meanwhile I'm prayin "Please gimme the tires!"  While 
she was gone, I motioned to my friend and pointed at a tire quick deflator.  
I said, "I hope they don't trade me for that, because I just made one for 
myself a couple weeks ago."  Sure enough, she comes back and hands me the 
deflator, and said that it was all that was left.
  So I took it.
  Towards the end of the day, we happened by the Currie booth again, and I 
got an idea.  I walked up to the guy there, and told him I'd trade him this 
$60 deflator for $50 worth of non-jeep merchandise.  A couple minutes later, 
I was walkin out with an ARCA video from Cedar City, a t-shirt, and 2 currie 
hats.
  Now I was happy.  I still managed to not spend any money, and get away 
with something I can actually use.
  Matt also got lucky and won an (2.5 gal?) air tank.
  BTW, I was the guy in the white t-shirt and dark blue FDNY hat causing 
trouble at the Currie booth and drawing counter.

  So what did you think of it?

Brandon Naves

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