The votes have been tallied, and the winner is......drum roll please.......Story # 2, written by Tommy Glaze!
CONGRATULATIONS Tommy!

Here's the winning story once again:

STORY #2
written by: Tommy Glaze
Ok, I swore I would take this story to my grave but here goes. I am sure most of you remember initail feeding frenzy that insued when the 4-Queens removed their Strike machines a couple of years ago. Being the conservative that I am I was going to stand clear of the mayhem and let the smoke clear. Well, enter one Friday night my 4 year old grandson was visiting and we were surfing e-bay for Strikes when a 4-Queens turns up with a low starting bid. We placed a token $40.00 bid on the Strike even though they were going for $100+ at the time. Hey,you never know.

The next morning I check e-bay knowing that I had probably lost the auction only to find that I had indeed won the Strike. BUT MY WINNING BID WAS $142.00. I rechecked my auction only to find that I had actually bid $4,000.00.

The moral of this story is three fold: never bid with a 4 year old in your lap, never bid with 4 VO's in your system, and watch those tricky decimal points.

Tommy
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It could have been worse Tommy, you could have been in a bidding war with Goldplated or one of the other "GO FOR IT" bidders!
But hopefully your prize of the new Caesars Palace $40 Winged Victory strike will help to compensate for your $142 winning bid :)

Please send me your mailing address, so I can have your prize sent to you.

Thanks again to everyone for posting, reading and voting...it has been alot of fun on this end.

Best Regards,
Dan at Jackpot!