toronto stories

the ex

There's something about the fair that I really like. Maybe it's all the good tasting food that's oh-so-bad for you. Or the way the rides are lit up at night. I love the atmosphere of the carnies calling out to get you to play. In any case, I was going to go, with or without anyone. I ended up mentioning it to my ex-coworker and she said she'd love to go as she had never been so off we went to the CNE.

It turned out to be a carefree day where we took in a Birds of Prey show, the SuperDogs, and Cirque Envol. We also did this sort of race/game called Prison Break, named after the tv show. We were given a code and had to hit six stations throughout the fairgrounds. At each station, we entered the code and had to answer a trivia question about one of the shows on that tv station. Well, the sad thing is that I am tv-less so I don't watch the shows. I had my friend answer the questions for me! Ironically, she got all of mine right and one of her own wrong. At each station, there is also the possibility of winning an instant prize...which this girl who never wins anything actually got - and on the first station we stopped at too. Which meant I could have technically stopped doing the rest of the stations but that would have meant not entering for a chance to win the big cash prize of $150,000 or something like it (I never pay attention to the grand prize as I'm not known to win things).

In terms of prizes, I usually win the most useless of items... in this case, the lowest common denominator was a disposable camera and I could almost swear that it would be my prize. The prizes were distributed according to a list. So if you were the 10th person you would get X. When we left, I handed in my card and won... a gift certificate to Lick's. Not bad! I looked on the list and saw the next item - a disposable camera.

posted by toronto girl @ 10:17 PM