Okay, here is my list of bonus-free deposits during the contest period:
7-17: $80
7-20: $25, 45, 45
7-23: $49
7-25: $100, 45, 45
7-27: $25
7-28: $48
8-5: $50, 50, 45
8-8: $45, 45
8-15: $49
8-16: $39
8-19: $60
If I count correctly, that's 19 picks, plus my practical jokes, which follow. (It's okay to post them all together in one post, right?)
1) I went on a double blind date once that my best friend set me up on at TGIFridays. She kept telling me all night that they had a surprise for me, but I thought she was just making it up to try to make me nervous. But then, just before we were about to leave, the entire waitstaff came out clapping and singing Happy Birthday. I was looking around to who the poor slob was, when I realized that they were advancing on me! She had lied to them ahead of time and said it was my birthday! This has now become a regular tradition. She has lied about it being my birthday in over a dozen restaurants now. The worst was at Hooters where they made me stand on a stool and quack like a duck while they sang!
2) Another "friend" (the girl I was meeting on the date mentioned above, actually) once stole a label from my desk at home with my address and phone number on it right before we left. Then when the waiter brought the check, she handed it to him and said, "Hi, my friend here thinks you're really hot and he wants you to have this."
3) The best friend I mentioned in #1 was actually my cousin's girlfriend when I met her. For some strange reason, the two of us decided it would be hilarious to "accidentally" put a fake love letter from her to me in an envelope with a letter from her to my cousin and for me to deliver it to him. He did fall for it, but somehow we were unable to convince him of the humor in the situation... especially when she really dumped him for me a couple months later.
4) Again, this same friend (yes, she embarrasses me a LOT) was playing Bingo with me. She was trying her best to annoy me and finally she started biting off peices of her styrofoam cup and spitting them onto my Bingo card that I was dobbing. But the thing is, I won! And to collect my winnings, I had to hand the floorwalker this card, soaking wet with my friend's spit, to read back the numbers! I was so embarrassed that I almost didn't call it and just gave up the $500... almost.
Those are the ones that stand out in my memory, although I'm sure I'll think of a few others later.
Anyway, I believe that makes 23 picks total, so I'll take:
2, 6, 8, 9, 10, 14, 16, 18, 19, 20, 22, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, & 40.
Thanks so much!