I need some of that “Luck of the Ericksons”

There’s a contest going on (oh, let’s face it, there’s always a contest going on!) where they take the first five qualifiers at the top of every hour. There’s a daily prize and then there’s a weekly prize. I’m lucky if I get through once in the whole day. Yesterday, when I finally got through, the DJ said, “My there’s a lot of Ericksons calling in.”
“Yes, we’re all related,” I said. I didn’t want to say anything negative about my brother-in-law who ALWAYS wins, because that might be seen as a poor loser or something.
“And apparently they are all on the phone,” he said. When he announced the winners, it was me, my brother-in-law, and his wife–twice, and some other poor schmuck who wasn’t an Erickson.
When I emailed them later on to say, Wow, how are they getting in all at the same time, he replied that he and his wife had both gotten in EVERY hour in the afternoon hours. Every hour! I got in once. So, obviously they have so’em going on with a direct phone line right to the radio station OR they are just REALLY REALLY lucky.

This morning when they announced the daily winner, who wins a fancy expensive pair of sunglasses. They said “And our sunglasses winner is KYLE ERICKSON! Kyle Erickson. There. You won something, now get off our backs.” I just laughed inside.

I, however, have not been on a winning streak. I qualify for things, but then I can’t seem to win them. There’s the car, the trip to New York to see Josh Groban, and then the Disneyland trip on Monday (that I had a 1 in 6 chance of winning–those are pretty good odds!) that I didn’t win. Darn. I’ll have to just keep on trying.