I won a bicycle! By Rose Greene

Olie had been saving her money to buy a used red bicycle for a few months. One evening I went out to retrieve a few pennies I had stashed in the car so I could give them to Olie toward the purchase of her bicycle. I was so excited that I caught my fingers not only in the car door but in the door to the house. Sometime later, we were watching one of our favorite kid’s programs, and every Friday they would call a viewer and ask a question. If it was answered correctly, you could win a brand new Schwinn bicycle. As the man chose the card, I just barely saw the address on it, and he called me. The question was something like "what profession stuffs the hides of animals for display"? He gave me 3 choices and I had no clue, so I asked Mom, who said it was a taxidermist. Olie picked one of the other choices and, even though I won the bicycle with Mom’s correct answer, Olie was still miffed at me for not choosing hers. She was also a little jealous when a couple weeks later my brand new bike showed up, and all she had was an old one.