That Night at the Padres Game

My wife and I took our two daughters and my in-laws to see the San Diego Padres play last summer at Petco Park. During one of the breaks between innings I noticed an advertisement on the big screen that read: "Text this number to win a free Lasik surgery."

I scanned the crowd and guessed that they were approximately 30,000 people in the stands. Then I figured that maybe only half were wearing glasses or contacts. That left around 15,000 people who were potential candidates for Lasik surgery. So I thought, "How many of those people are going to enter the contest?"

So I whipped out my Smart Phone and typed away, nonchalantly so no one else would get the same idea :-)

But that's not how the story ends. More on that later.