OT - I'll just get right to the point - Wheel of Fortune

I could have named this post many things:

What I will Do for My Mama
As Much As I Hate Attention I Want to Be on TV...Not
How I Spent My Saturday
What Was I Thinking
Did I really Think They Would Pick Me
How Silly Am I Willing To Be

Ok I'll stop...I heard Wheel of Fortune was coming to NC, Fayetteville and somewhere else (senior moment). It brought back memories....

My mother LOVES this show. To me, it's ok. I really do no****ch game shows a lot. They just do not interest me. So how wonderful it was when they came to Raleigh at Crabtree Mall a couple of years ago.

My mother called me and BEGGED me to go. I mean BEGGED me. I knew if I did not go, I would be shunned for life. Guilt trips forever. Ok, so I went cause like the first child to go to college, I was going to be the first family member on TV to make my family rich (like I was going to share)!

Yes, I stood in line to participate in (2) shows (crowd member). I was told to be very enthusiastic if called on stage. In fact, it would help if I was very enthusiastic in the crowd.

Now as much as I love to talk (and I hate public speaking) I do not like attention. I mean I HATE attention. At my wedding, I cried and nearly passed out when the congregation stood for the bride to walk down the aisle. THEY WERE ALL LOOKING AT ME! I told them to sit down and look up front at Michael as I would be there shortly.

So talky me does not have an 'enthusiastic' button that I can just turn on and off. If I did, it was surely stuck in off that day. I watched as the people if the crowd jumped and screamed and ...well you know how folks do...

So I stood and endured this torture for about 8 hours.

Did I get a call?  Nooooooo
Did I get a lovely parting gift? Noooooo
 

I am still trying to remember if I even got to go to the bathroom.

So get your letters ready and go forth to represent NC. I will not be there. Now if someone would choose me to go on stage. just maybe THEN I would turn my enthusiastic button on. Until then I'll be on my couch watching the news at 7:30pm routing you on!
 

 

 this reminds me of when my husband was in MOS school in 29 palms CA, they would have all the single marines wear their blues to the prices right show.. A few of his buddies got on and won. The one marine that sticks out in my mind is he won an above ground pool. Then thing is he lived in the barracks, where the heck was he gonna put an above ground pool .
They would all go once a month to try and get on that show, but they had to wear their blues, on the bus ride and then sit in them in tapeing process.. he still to this complains about it.. lol because he never won or got called.. 
take care 
Annmarie 

Hey Annmarie,

May daughter just left Havelock nc in August and is now living in 29 palms.  Her and her husband just went to Los Angeles last weekend.  I'll have to tell them to get on the show.  Hate i never got to the meetups in Havelock.  Good luck in Japan

Deborah

A girl from my hometown and school was on WOF a few years ago.   Couldn't get the following:

_ore  tha_  o_e  way  to  ski_  a  _at.  

all she needed was the M, N an C.

I'll alway's remember that show.  
And to think she had to spell in order to cheer back in HS day's.

She did come home with a box of noodles.  

 

I have spent years trying to keep away from the cameras, never failed though, at the farewell ceremony they had to come and interview me and the kids.  At the ceremony for closing a post, I hid out on the far side of the field, they still found us.  I only willingly went in front of the camera when we did a short blurb for the home town holiday greetings, made hubby do the talking for it, though.  Now WOF is coming to our town, I love this show.  I have spent a long time wishing I could go on it and see if I could do any good on it.  So, if I do get to go on Friday and stand in the lines to get in and watch for the shows they will be doing...I just know they will not pull my application out of that barrel.  I will be stuck watching so many others try out while I sit there.  The one time I am actually willing to go on camera, you know they won't call my name LOL.  Oh well, guess if I make it there on Friday that I will enjoy watching other people play it like I do at home each evening.