Back in the spring, I saw a email posting a motorcycle shop to evaluate the salesman and pretend to be interested in purchasing a certain bike. It stated that you had to be 21-65 years old. It was also 40 miles away. It stayed on the board all summer. I got several personal invites but I didn't reply because it was a long way and the pay was minimal, and not to mention I do not look like a biker. I'm a 66-year-old, overweight woman and do not look the part in any way. Lo and behold, I get a phone call begging that I do it for the assigner. I REALLY did not want to take the assignment and told her that the $15 would not even cover my gas and that I had to go through the busy tunnel, which sometimes takes several hours coming and going. I told her I couldn't do it for less than $125! She thanked me and hung up. Nobody would take me up on that, right?! She didn't miss a beat, I was sitting at my computer and she emailed me straight away with another invite to take the job with these corrections. It read that the job was for 18-66 year olds and the pay was bonused to $125, plus tolls and an added citation.

My contact person randomly happened to be a gentleman a bit older than me. The shop went smoothly and he gave his pitch perfectly. He called after to follow up and invited me to a end of the year GALA where they would display the new models and sell the floor models at a discount. I told him I would consider it knowing that I wasn't going. He went on to tell me that he would sponsor me in the contests they were going to have. He mentioned there would be 3 contests. He's talking fast now and describes the last one as a wash your bike contest...did I mention these are bikini contests? So, 225 pounds and 66 years old and I've been invited to participate in a bikini contest! He has seen me and wants to pay for me to be in these contests in a bikini!!! I have never laughed so hard in my life. My husband thought it was a hoot when I told him and said "You're going to do it aren't you?" Holy cow!! I laughed all week.

No darling, I did not. Although I could have found me one of those old time tee shirts that had a bikini body painted on it and might have won just because it was so funny! Maybe next year. Ya'll can come be my groupies and cheer me on. I can display my trophy in my den and explain to my Cadette Girl Scout how I won it.