Drawing: Collar City Kilt Fest city pass
Drawing's closed. Winner's been emailed.
The Collar City Kilt Fest -- "a race to St. Patrick's Day" -- is this Saturday, March 5 in downtown Troy. We have two city passes for the festival (along with 5k registrations) -- and we're giving them away. Maybe to you.
To enter the drawing, please answer this question in the comments:
Tell us about a way that you're lucky -- or a time that you were lucky.
There's a wide range here. Maybe it's lucky the way you met your significant other, maybe you have a knack for picking the winning horses at the track (without actually knowing anything about horse racing). It could be whatever. We'll draw one winner at random. (Maybe you're lucky at winning drawings.)
The city pass for the Collar City Kilt Fest includes tastings and special discounts at a bunch of establishments around downtown Troy on Saturday, such as a free pint of a beer or a free slider. This prize includes two free registrations for the Collar City Kilt Race 5k earlier that day, if you're inclined.
City passes for the Collar City Kilt Fest are $20. Registration for the 5k is $30 ($35 with a city pass).
Important: All comments must be submitted by noon on Wednesday, March 2, 2016 to be entered in the drawing. You must answer the question to be part of the drawing. (Normal commenting guidelines apply.) One entry per person, please. You must enter a valid email address (that you check regularly) with your comment. The winner will be notified via email by 2 pm on Wednesday and must respond by noon on Thursday, March 3.
AOA is a media sponsor of the Collar City Kilt Fest.
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Won 3 separate drawings from the Albany Ski and Snowboard Expo last year. A seasons pass, a day pass and a 5-day trip to Banff, Canada.
... said Michael Bellack on Mar 1, 2016 at 11:25 AM | link
I won an AOA drawing last year. Let's keep the streak going!
... said tooter on Mar 1, 2016 at 12:37 PM | link
Won an signed copy of a JK Rowling book on twitter this past year!
... said Chris on Mar 1, 2016 at 12:41 PM | link
My husband proposed to me on St Patrick's Day a few years ago..what's luckier than that? :P
... said Jenn on Mar 1, 2016 at 1:19 PM | link
I have a wonderful wife and two healthy kids.
... said Ron on Mar 1, 2016 at 2:05 PM | link
You never know where life will drop you. I found myself in the early nineties living at the Coach Light Motor Inn & Lounge down in Newburgh, sharing a Deluxe Double with Johnny Vance. The Deluxe was $6 a night more than a standard but the radio had FM on the dial and you got a polyester floor mat with Hula girls on it instead of a paper mat with an ad on it from Zincs Muffler Shop over in Beacon. Vance had worked at Zincs and Zincs himself had fired him. Something about not using the apostrophe in the possessive form making people thinking they were getting Zinc mufflers when they were just crap tin. “Splurge when you have to, Bubba,†Vance would say. We were short on cash, selling magazine subscriptions and seed packets door to door on one of those Honda scooters with the light that popped up. Ours didn't pop up and the Newburgh cops were giving us tickets left and right. We'd get a ticket and drive down the block toward some fake brick house that looked like they could use our Lady Mix Marigold seeds-- Large blooms! Never need staking! -- and another cop would cut us off with his squad car and ticket us again. "Never cross that river," Vance would sigh pointing toward a haze where he thought the Hudson might be. No one in the Vance family had never been west of the Hudson until Johnny. His mother wept. Two hundred years they had been here and the closet any of them had ever been to the left bank was when old Church Vance in a drunken stupor had driven halfway across the Bear Mountain Bridge before realizing the travesty of his error. He reversed his pickup truck all the way back to the Nickel Drop Bar in Manitou and drank Scotch Sours for a week in complete silence. Vance said a Circuit Judge had ordered him over the Hamilton Fish bridge and to not come back. What the charges were and which Circuit Court Vance was always vague on. We had library cards and the cute librarian with a limp at the 2nd Street branch was feeding us Faulkner and Poe and Trollope with sides of Turgenev and Solzhenitsyn. She was hot on Vance and she'd come over and catch salamanders in the sludge of the Coach Light's cracked baby blue pool and quote Jane Bowles. “'My father predicted everything when he said I would procrastinate until I died.' Oh, look this one has two heads!â€. We'd read and drink Hamm's beer with little hot dogs we made on a hotplate and listen to the FM. Sometimes we fill the librarian’s leather fashion backpack with Hamm’s and go over the Lounge and watch a Pogues cover band from Carmel. The librarian was a crazy dancer, all whipping hair and the clanking scratches of her special boot on the Lounge’s hardwood floors. We had everything and life was happy. Then one day I got back from traffic court and the librarian and Vance were gone. They left a note. "Were going back across the river, Bubba, come on over and visit us some time." They didn't say where. I later heard they'd started a rock band in Danbury, covering the Clancy Brothers with big guitar licks and a fuzz box. Supposedly they were doing pretty well until the Postal Police grabbed them on mail fraud charges. Vance probably never did send anyone those Lady Mix Marigolds. I never saw their act; I can't make myself go into Connecticut. Their blue license plates give me seizures. I passed a Civil Service exam and moved out of the Coach Light and back across the river, stopped reading Trollope, and started playing solitaire on a State computer screen and counting the days down until the end of my life, my co-workers and I avoiding not only each other but ourselves. Sometimes you never know how lucky you had it because it didn't seem all that lucky at the time. And then you look back on it and you realize it and it’s too late.
... said Big 'Vic' Proton on Mar 1, 2016 at 2:11 PM | link
I've always adopted kittens that (luckily) turn into super friendly and adorable cats!
... said K on Mar 1, 2016 at 2:43 PM | link
Great husband, dog and family. I'm so lucky!
... said Sam on Mar 1, 2016 at 3:59 PM | link
I'm lucky to have a great wife (whose birthday is this weekend) and we are both lucky to have a new baby boy to celebrate with!!
... said Dan on Mar 1, 2016 at 9:51 PM | link
I don't usually have good luck winning "things" like the CAR my neighbors won in Price Chopper's RagstoRiches last week (yup, the big prizes do exist!). But I've got two healthy, adorable kids, a hard-working husband and live in the freest country on earth. In the grand scheme of things, I'm pretty lucky!
... said Jo on Mar 1, 2016 at 10:44 PM | link
Lucky to have a great wife (whose birthday is this weekend) and a new baby boy to celebrate with!!
... said Dan on Mar 2, 2016 at 8:36 AM | link