"The Price Is Wrong, Bob!"

Remember that post a few weeks ago on how we came about $20,000 short? Well here's the reason why. The Price is Right episode that I was on finally aired on last Monday and featured a guy from our June Lake group (they were in town visiting and needed a couple of us to fill in spots) who completely blew a Showcase Showdown.

In a nutshell, our guy Andrew gets called, wins on the Row, loses his game, wins the wheel, and gets into the Showdown on pure luck. As one (if not the only) of the firefighters of June Lake, CA, you can tell he wanted to do his town proud. The problem was that he wasn't watching his showcase being shown, he was looking over at us instead. To be fair, the girl he was playing against passed it over- but regardless he should have been watching.

The showcase you ask? Well it was an awesome barbecue (at least $4,000), a jukebox (at least $5,000), and a week-long trip for two to New Zealand (at least $15,000). While we're shouting over "Twenty thousand!!," to him, he inexplicably bids (after stammering and stuttering for five minutes) "Twenty-nine hundred, Drew."

$2,900? $2,900?! For pete's sake that doesn't even cover the grill! We asked him afterwards what happened, and here's what he said.

"I don't know guys, I just sorta blacked out. I mean it was so hot under those lights. It was so loud I couldn't even her you guys. And oh! The model! The model! She was standing right next to me dudes! She was sooo hot! She was smokin'. And she smelled so good- she smelled like Mervyns!"

Sigh. I really should upload the video.