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Every month our underwriters at work email out a monthly newsletter. The most interesting part of the newsletter is the section titled, “Just In Time Trivia”. The “Just In Time Trivia” section is just an oddball trivia question that if you respond to first with the correct answer they give you a nice prize. Last month it was a $100 gift certificate to Amazon.com.

The question this month was, “What is the Halloween capital of the U.S.” Since I was sitting at my computer when the newsletter came in I just punched that question into google and responded with Anoka, Minnesota. A couple of days later they responded and said congratulations you’ve won a $100 gift certificate to hersheygifts.com.

“Great” I thought, “what I am going to do with $100 worth of chocolate?”

Since hersheygifts.com is more for personalized gifts, I thought that maybe I could come up with something really funny. However, since you never know how HR is going to act about things like that, I decided to just order as much chocolate as I could.

A couple of days later 4 tins of chocolate cover pretzels, 1 tin of assorted chocolates, and 1 tin of dark chocolate cover cherry cordials arrived. I then went around to the various other departments that I often work with and spread the wealth as best I could.

My boss joked that I was being a suck up for taking one of the tins of chocolate covered pretzels to my great grand boss (my grand boss’ boss), but really I was just being nice. Howver, since he mentioned it, I’m sure it certainly didn’t hurt that I did that.