On Monday morning, while preoccupied with other events, I tossed a Tim Horton’s
RRRoll up the Rim to Win cup into my trash without even checking to see if it was a winner. Later that day I thought about it and reminded myself to get it out and check it when I got home. Over the course of the next few days, as we drove by countless Tim Horton’s franchises, I kept thinking “I must remember to check the cup when I get home” (The garbage had just been emptied that morning, so the cup was pretty much the only contents and was therefore a candidate for retrieval). Last night when I finally got home … I promptly forgot to fish out the cup. This morning … I forgot to check the cup. Tonight … I forgot about the cup until just after my hand let go of the garbage I was tossing into the trash. Thankfully it was just a plastic wrapper and the cup was spared a gory, icky death.

And I won a donut.1

1This brings my statistics up to 2 in 20. Slightly less than the 1 in 9 average.