Board 8 > How many prizes will I win at the fair this year?

(+) Yeah! (+)

And I'm glad ya'll enjoy the topic! Just glad to be able to tell it.

And win prizes.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/3/0/0/AABgm0AADq78.jpg

Congrats on your win and impressing your girlfriend!

BlueCrystalTear posted...

that's what the small doggie in your hands in the pic with your girlfriend is, yes?

Overlooked this part earlier -- yes, and also sidequest-storytime!

Girlfriend was giving me a hard time earlier in the night about winning her a prize. She didn't say anything until probably the third or fourth time I mentioned we gotta win a prize for my friend who wanted a new dog-toy for his boy Zeus.

Meet Zeus.

https://i.imgur.com/jcP8D9N.png

(sorry for weird formatting)

All my friend wanted was a teddy bear for Zeus, so I said okay.

After we won the bottle-game and got the dragon, we still had not gotten him a bear yet. We did scout out a spot for one of those booths where everybody wins earlier in the night that would include a teddy bear for one of its smallest prizes -- that booth was charging $5 -- but along the way we got stopped at the hook-the-alligator booth ran by Darling K.

She stopped us to brag on the big prize, asking where we won it. She said the bottle game was right beside one of the basketball games where her boyfriend works. We all laughed together when Darling K. made a joke about how the water from an earlier rain made a puddle of water in the walking space so people *had* to walk beside her boyfriend's basketball game -- we were joking about that earlier and were glad we weren't the only ones finding it funny.

We talk awhile longer and the thing about the interaction here I remember best is this: DO NOT LEAVE OFF THE K WHEN YOU REFER TO DARLING K. I asked her for her name as we were leaving and she pointed to her nametag, then I said Darling out loud and she said NO -- it's Darling K.

k watever

Eventually it gets down to business -- we are guaranteed to win a prize at this hook-an-alligator game, and they have teddy bears there. The cost was eight dollars though...! wanted to walk away for the $5-option we saw earlier, but two things:

1) Girlfriend and I were enjoying our time with Darling K.
2) I already saved us $6 earlier in the night (read your signs people -- it was $3 off per person that night for people who had a coupon from the program, and they were giving out programs at the ticket booth). I can spare $3 back here.

So I pay and I hook a toy alligator. Easy. It was about as hard as picking up a six-pack soda ring with a crowbar -- kid-stuff. We all celebrated facetiously.

Darling K asked me what I wanted, and I said we need the best teddy bear she has for my friend. She goes over to the prizes and walks directly past the teddy bears that drew me over there to grab me this.

https://i.imgur.com/kmKIR0x.png

Can I confess something? That is clearly a dog. Those ears are too floppy. I know this now. However, we were all excited and it's all dark and weirdly lit at the same time, all those excuses, right...so when we saw that, for like the first minute we thought that was a cute original kind of way to represent a black bear. We took it and celebrated on how happy my friend will be to have a bear..

And then we walk far enough away to where I realized this bear's a dog. I call it a dog-bear though because, for just a moment, three people agreed it was a bear.

(or maybe I mentioned my friend's dog at some point and she got hung up on that part)

(also come on my friend is not going to care what toy Zeus gets to tear up in under thirty seconds)

Zeus having done exactly as expected with the dog-bear.

https://i.imgur.com/VOuq0D7.jpeg