I've Won the Lottery....Sort Of

Okay, so I haven't actually won the official lottery. But I have won the lottery on greatest things to win, like, ever! *hint hint*

Let me back track for a moment to explain why this is even greater than it ever possibly could be. You see, I've never won anything before. My mom likes to claim I won a Beanie Baby one time, but let's be honest for a second. It was a Beanie Baby. They probably payed me to take it.

In loo of the Beanie Baby, I've never actually won anything before. Not even one of those stupid stuffed animals out of a claw machine (Although those are rigged, so that makes me feel a bit better). Which is why what I'm about to say is so incredibly wonderful.

It's almost as wonderful as the idea of being able to live off of Chocolate Covered Bacon and Snapple for the rest of my life without having any health concerns.

Yes, I know. "Abbie, get to the point already!"

Drum Roll please!

*pause for drum roll on nearest hard surface*

I HAVE WON TAYLOR SWIFT CONCERT TICKETS.

Yes, that's right. My hands down all time favorite performer ever. And I have won tickets to see her. Live. Okay, okay. I have already seen her twice. But this is different. This time, the tickets are free! (And free is always better.)

"Abbie, how on earth did you win such a fabulous experience!?"

Well, I'm so glad you asked! It was all thanks to the fabulous Keds! A while back I saw that the Keds Facebook page was holding a contest to win Taylor tickets. All you had to do was select the show you wanted to see, and voila! you were entered. I thought, "Hey, you don't win things. So why not enter? You'll forget you even entered by tomorrow, so you won't even know you lost."

Forget I did. Then like magic, a little over a week ago, an email showed up in my inbox saying that I had won the tickets! Of course, knowing I never win anything, I automatically assumed it was a scam. Plus, the email didn't have any official Keds letter head on it and it was from a gmail account. So I decided to email the customer service department and find out what was going on.

Two days later I got an email back saying they would forward it to the correct department and get back to me. I'm assuming they forwarded my message by carrier pigeon, because no one ever got back to me. About this time I had resolved myself to the fact that it was a scam, when I got a second email. This one said that they had extended the deadline to reply and claim the tickets.

Now I stared to get a bit excited, "Maybe this IS real!?". So once again I forwarded on the email to customer service, asking once again if it was. The following day was my last to claim the tickets, and I was getting a bit antsy in waiting for a reply. I got bored in study hall, so I began my usual mid-morning Twitter check. While scrolling through my feed, I saw that only 10 minutes prior, Keds had sent out a tweet.

I began to get pretty annoyed, "How can they have time to tweet, but not reply to my email!?". So, being the snarky person I am, I sent them a sassily worded tweet. This promptly got me a response asking myself to DM them what my problem was. I sent them a 4 page DM with my predicament. As the day progressed they still hadn't responded (which at this point was surprising me), and I was getting antsy again.

Then, finally, my nerves were calmed. The absolutely lovely person that runs their Twitter account finally got back to me, and told me it was in-fact real! "Really!? I actually won!!"

So, now, in a few short weeks I will be going to see the one and only T-Swizzle!


I'm sorry if you don't find this post as funny as I think I am in my others, I'm just terribly excited and wanted to share!

I'd also like to point out that this post is in no way at all sponsored by Keds (who could use some improvement in their customer service response times, just saying). No one pays me to say anything.

Although I do wish someone would. That way I wouldn't feel so bad for annoying people as much as I probably do with my incessant blabbering.