Therapy On Two Wheels

Saturday August 8, 2009 must have been my lucky day.  The plan for the day was to get up early and meet my friend Gary and head to our GWRRA Chapter Meeting at 8:00am in Rockwall, TX.  We met and left Ennis, TX at 7:00 am.  We had an uneventful trip to breakfast and meeting.  During our Chapter meeting we always have a 50/50 drawing where you buy so many tickets for $5 that go into a pot for door prizes as well as the cash amount received it split 50% to the chapter and the other 50% is divided into a 30% prize and a 20% prize.  This is where my “Lucky” day started.  I won the 20% prize of $20 for a gain of $15.  Then we have another fund raiser that is called the “$1 Auction”.  George our Chapter Director is an established baker and makes us a fantastic cake to auction off each month.  The way the auction works is that he’ll start a timer with an unknown amount of time put on it to the attendees.  He will then ask for $1 bids.  Your goal is to time it just right and be the last one who put in a $1 bid when the timer rings.  I put in a couple of dollars in the beginning but then I held onto my last $1 and just estimated how much time I thought was left. Finally I put in my last $1 and after I did the timer went off and I had WON the cake.  It was a Chocolate Chip Cheesecake.  I don’t like cheesecake but I knew I could take it home and Denise would have a slice and then she or I would take it to work for our coworkers to enjoy.  That was just the beginning of my lucky day.  We rode home back to Ennis and again had a nice leisurely ride back.  It was announced at the meeting the Chapter “M” in Mansfield was having a “Moonlight Poker Run Ride” that evening starting at 8:00 pm.  Gary and I decided we’d attend.  I met Gary at his house at 7pm and we headed to Mansfield, TX.  We arrived at a quarter to eight and had plenty of time to register and get our first 2 cards drawn and our first stop plotted into the GPS.  Gary read the stops off while I posted them in the route maker in my GPS.  We were the first two bikes to leave out at 8pm.  It cost $15 to play one hand. I used my winnings from the morning to purchase my one hand I was going to play.  We completed the 2 stops for cards and then headed to the final stop in with lots of time left over.  We arrived at the last stop before Chapter “M” had even arrived and had a chance to setup their tables.  We patiently waited.  I didn’t have a great hand working. I only had a pair of Tens.  But when I finally was able to draw my last card was left with the pair of 10′s.  I knew that was not going to hold up and I was right.  Someone had a Full House of K’s and 10′s.  Nice Hand.  But not to worry, I still had door prizes to possibly win.  In the end, I did in fact win a door prize of some soap and lotions that I took home to Denise.  I also won a $25 gift certificate to DFW Honda and the best one of all was I actually won the Cordless Dremel Tool that I really wanted.  I won that by paying $3 for spins on a wheel to get extra tickets for the numbers I landed on. I don’t remember how many tickets I ended up with in the Dremel Tool bag but it was probably like 20 or so.  It was the last thing they drew for and I couldn’t believe it when they called out my #.  Yahoo!  I won again.  It was definitely a “Lucky” day for me.  I had a great day.  Poor Gary hadn’t won a thing all day and we really thought he wasn’t going to end up with anything at all but near the end of the drawings he did end up winning a $25 gift certificate to DFW Honda as well.  On our way home we stopped into the IHOP in Waxahachie, TX and had an early breakfast and then we headed home to Ennis with another nice ride.  We arrived back in Ennis around 1:00am.   All in all a fantastic weekend and I’d have to say it was my “Lucky” day!

See you on the road,

WingPilot66
David W.