Winner Sandisk Slot Radio Giveaway #1

I loved reading your dad stories. I sat outside laughing, in the car laughing, in my living room laughing. So many excellent Dad Gags™. Only occasionally would I read one and start to cry a little and not at the ones you'd think I'd cry at. I'd cry when someone remembered how awesome it was to go to breakfast with their Dad in the morning, sitting at the counter. It is so easy to give your kids at least a few nice memories of you, if you're a douchey dad reading this. Just take your kid to breakfast once in a while okay?

When Max was a baby Logan used to take Maddie to R&J, a little soda fountain/grill a couple blocks away from where we live now. He did this because I don't handle sleep deprivation very well and sleep deprivation with a 2.5 year old, let's put this plainly. If they didn't go SOMEWHERE in the morning I may have killed them.

R&J had a fire years ago, and when we'd walk by 4 year old Maddie would ask when they were going to open up again. They couldn't re-open, some sort of insurance fraud issue, and now it's a Thai place. Maddie is 10.5 and she still says, "I wish R&J was still open."

Logan suggested they go to dinner together at the Thai place....we all had a good laugh over that one. Mrs. Pickerson doesn't do Thai.

Also reading your stories reminded me of this one my friend Jean told me about her wedding day. She and her father, one of those really good ones, were getting ready to walk down the aisle and as the doors open and they started walking he turned to whisper in her ear.

"They're all looking at me...."

Save that one for any walking down the aisle you have to do in the future.

And The Winner Is:

This was a little complicated. My site is not configured so that comments are numbered and, because I had to switch to an advanced template (and I know nothing about the advanced template...I think it involves duct tape and telepathy), only 100 comments can show up on a page....I had to manually enter all your comments into an Excel sheet. (Even though a nice reader sent me a work-around for the issue, thank you Sumo!)

That was fun. (I'll have this issue fixed for the next giveaway.)

After I removed duplicate comments and or spam from the count we ended up with 287 comments.

The winner was Number 206.

This was April, there were a few Aprils, but this was the April who commented between Emily H and Lindsay.

Here's her comment in my Typepad list.

My Dad is always, always, there for me when I need him. When I split up with my husband my Dad flew up to where I was living to drive me back home. Just a few months ago I saw a cat get hit by a car (it didn't die right away), which was extremely traumatic because it looked just like my kitties, and I was too upset to drive. He came and picked me up, even thought it was 11 o'clock at night. This makes me sound like a big weenie, but these are the best examples I can think of!

Congratulations April!

The next Slot Radio giveaway will be next month. I'm not sure how your comments could get better but let's try.