Monday, June 12, 2006

To the Victor Go the Diapers?

Have you ever wondered what you win for placing at a bike race? For my 3rd place at QS, I won 50 bucks, which is a generous payout by cat 3 standards for an industrial park crit. By contrast, I took home $42 for my win at Bunny Hop, and $120 for my 2nd at Seaford, which was a 2 day race. So I was more than pleased with fifty bucks. BTW my entry fee was $20 plus about $2 service fee. The next day I went to K-mart. Here's what fifty bucks can do:
92 size 4 (I think) diapers
29 pull up diapers
A small bottle of fabric softener
A toothbrush
2 64 ounce bottles of Rain Gatorade
A purple Franklin kickball-type ball that bounces pretty good -NOT LOPSIDED, although it is hard to put spin on the thing when you kick it.
I got two bucks and change back. We tried to find a present for a friend who is turning two soon, but K-mart didn't have what we wanted, a Fisher Price rolly-car-type-thing for a tot. We also looked for an umbrella stroller for Mr. Little Himself, but they were out of stock of that too. As the Rain Man said, "K-Mart sucks."

posted by Mark @ 1:01 PM