Being deployed you hear a lot of, "keep your head down" from people. What does that even mean? I always thought, "heads up" was a better phrase. It helps you stay alert. Well I found out about the "heads down" thing the other day.
Every morning I walk from my morning meeting to breakfast. I enjoy these walks because they give me a chance to plan out my busy day. My head was down because I was watching for puddles from the rain the previous night. It is amazing how much garbage is around considering it is a Army post. (I guess they aren't as clean as us Air Force). About three-quarters into my "planning" I walked over an iTunes gift card and almost left it, but something told me I should pick it up (I have no idea why). When I flipped the card over it was unscratched. It was a $15 iTunes gift certificate, unused. - Casie what are the odds?
The moral of the story; it pays to keep your head down. :-)
It's the little things that keep you going. Ya know?
Every morning I walk from my morning meeting to breakfast. I enjoy these walks because they give me a chance to plan out my busy day. My head was down because I was watching for puddles from the rain the previous night. It is amazing how much garbage is around considering it is a Army post. (I guess they aren't as clean as us Air Force). About three-quarters into my "planning" I walked over an iTunes gift card and almost left it, but something told me I should pick it up (I have no idea why). When I flipped the card over it was unscratched. It was a $15 iTunes gift certificate, unused. - Casie what are the odds?
The moral of the story; it pays to keep your head down. :-)
It's the little things that keep you going. Ya know?
4 comments:
First off, I thought this was another story about you falling on your face.
As for "what are the odds"...if the reports from December are accurate (iTunes sales fell 65% when sampling credit card history but iTunes sales are up 84% when looking at actual purchases) I would say the odds are actually pretty good.
Last I read iTunes sold over a billion songs in 2006. That means over 800 million of those sales are from gift cards. They sell $15, $25, and $50 gift cards. I would think half of the gift cards sold are $15 cards. So roughly 400 million of the sales in a year are from a $15 gift cards. That means 27 million $15 gift cards are used a year.
Not taking into consideration the fact it's the month after Christmas and a deployed location(two factors that would increase the likelihood of finding an iTunes gift card), 74,000 $15 gift cards are used a day.
There are too many factors to swag at for a straight answer to include those already mentioned and many more (population of FOB, demographics of FOB--primarily age), traffic level of route, etc). How many cards are lost a day? I've done enough guessing already so let's just say you have one of 74,000 iTunes cards for that day.
You probably should have been more excited by the odds of find a "0,35 Turkish Surprise" in your chips, but I can't blame you for being more excited about an iTunes card.
What are you going to buy? Wait...we. ;)
LOL, you have WAY too much time on your hands.
Yeah, I'm bored a lot. :)
well in your case, keeping your head down is always a good idea so you don't fall on your face anymore!
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