Alaska Teardrop and I had headed out West to attend the final IRG in Northern California. There was a raffle... You could drop your tickets into the paper bags near dozens of prizes that had been donated to the event. I really wanted to win a Coleman stove and my odds seemed good because there were many, of various models and quantities, available.
I dropped most of my tickets into the bags of the 425B model that appealed to me most. And waited.
Imagine my surprise when I won one! I was so happy. Then my name was called again! In my rush up to claim my second stove I didn't realize I'd also won a third! LOL
When I returned to the table with two more stoves everyone was laughing. Well, almost everyone. I heard someone say "Look at Fred's face."
In my mind I sat there for the rest of the raffle imagining painting each stove a different color like this:
What I didn't realize until we'd lugged them back down to our campsite was someone else was thinking this:
The next thing I knew I was trudging around the campground handing out free stoves to anyone who wanted one. Well, two of them. I kept one. So that's how I went from having a collection to owning a single stove in less than an hour. I was happy to share though. Plus my mpg would definitely have suffered traveling with all three
Not to worry, Stacie.
xoxo TDN 
