I Won Four Pounds of Squash

OK, so a while back in women's Bible study they asked us the best thing we had ever won. I racked my brain and couldn't think of anything!! Well, next time remind me that I now have won 4 lbs. of free squash. How, you ask?

Last Sunday morning we trekked over to Harvard Square where there is a farmer's market that sets up Fridays and Sundays each week. They have various fruits, veggies, flowers, breads, herbs, etc....the usual suspects (plus a jam stand with a lady that has a thick Massachusetts accent - so thick that Michael took me to her stand and started asking her questions about the jams just so I could hear her talk...is that wrong?).

There was a HUGE yellow squash sitting by the cash register with a sign that read "Guess the Weight and Win an Equivalent Weight in Squash". Tempting, eh? You had to guess it to the tenth of a pound. The guy next to me guessed 6.5 pounds and was wrong. I picked it up and thought it weighed about the same as a half gallon of milk (and luckily I knew a gallon of milk weighs about 8 pounds). So I guessed 4.2 pounds. I also was wrong.

This week I came back and there was a sign that said "Last week's squash weighed 4.3 pounds," and the girl working the stand recognized me and said right off the bat, "You were really close last week!" I said, "yeah, was there a winner?" And then the good news. Apparently there was a winner right before closing time, but he didn't like squash and told them they could give it away to someone else. The girl decided on the spot that I should be the free squash recipient. How lucky can a girl get?!?! So now we have four pounds of zucchini.

Is this a marketable skill set?