Deal or No Deal.....

So I am sure most to everyone knows that mom and I went to the Deal or No Deal auditions this past weekend. Boy did we have a blast! We usually make the best out of any kind of situation and have the luck (if that is what you can call it...) of attracting some odd sorts to us. This time, however, we were lucky and had some pretty ok people around us. So let me go through the day and tell you some of the highlights starting at the beginning.

We left town about 8:15, knowing the line would be around the corner already but not wanting to get there so early to look tired or be forgotten by the judges! We stopped and got some camping chairs and snacks. We parked, grabbed our back packs with our snacks, I-Pods, books, applications and camping chairs....we were set. we found the end of the line and promptly proceeded to get comfy....enter: weirdo one. She is about 4-5 people in front of us and is on her cell phone talking to everyone...LOUDLY...about what she put down for her answers on the application. 'ya, haha and then for the question what would you do with a million dollars...." Mom and I both look at each other and think..wait, that wasn't on our application (which I had printed of the week before and filled out the 13 pages...sure we were a head of the game). We ask around and find we have the wrong application. Well surely they will accept this application it has all the info and more on it....nope. We need to fill out the 2 page application. We eventually get said application and proceed to fill them out before we even get in the building thinking it would be to late once we get inside. Nope there is another 4 hour wait but I will get to that soon.
so naturally you are going to see some weirdo's at these things. they always come around thinking they will get noticed for the "clever" costumes. Enter weirdo two, three, four and five (I am sure there were more but we didn't see them from our spot in line)...A man dressed as Jafar from Aladdin....how that fit into Deal or No Deal..we are still trying to figure that out, a girl dressed in cow-boy get up with a life size cut out of John Wayne, a girl with a HUGE check with her name on it ( a little eager are we..), a woman who had to be at least 10 years older then mom with tight shirt, leather mini, fishnet and boots with wild orange, red and purple hair...although I don't think she was dressing weird just for this event, and of course the girl who wore the tight green mini dress which was much too short and much to tight ( she was trying to dress like one of Howie's girls). She had the cottage cheese thighs and the pudgy tummy. don't get me wrong she was a nice looking girl...she just did not show off the right assets. There were also some pretty funny people there. A man with a great English accent, a gal who had two kids one of which was mentally handicapped and a guy who moved here from Spain. this soon became our little group and off we go.
so the doors open at 10 to start auditioning. well the line starts moving....fast. Like they are just herding people through.....well that is exactly what they were doing. Once you got inside you had to wait in this zig-zag line (just like Disney Land) for about 3-4 hours. You finally get cut up into groups of 10 and are carted off to this table, which by the way is not secluded so you can make this grand entrance, it is right next to the other 5 tables with groups of 10 around them. You get literally 20 seconds (stop watch and everything) to impress this person. If they liked you then you are asked to stay and answer some more questions, if they like the answers to those questions you are carted off to the next line to freak out about doing it again....um 20 seconds... are you kidding me? that is all the time you are going to give me. What kind of impression can you make in 20 seconds and it is so loud you can barely here the person next to you. Well I made it to the second round (probably because I did the Pantyhose dance as part of my most embarrassing moment story I told). Mom did not. I felt bad. I really didn't want to go to the second round by myself but hey one of us had to win us the money right? so now I was doing this for both families....No pressure..right? haha. so I stand in the second line for another hour or so and yup.. .here we go again. 20 second to impress this guy (he looked grumpy right off the bat so I knew I had to be careful) It is my turn. I am so nervous I almost black out...I think "no take control you have to get on the show. Say what you said the first girl and you'll do it" I say my deal..."hey he chuckled, he likes me..he thinks I am funny. I'll say something else. No, no I just stuttered. Oh what an idiot...shut your mouth. YOUR losing him...shut up Maura!!" (really..that is what is sounds like in my head sometimes).....and then it was over. I totally bombed. He chuckled at my first joke so I tried to be funnier and totally lost it and sounded like a stuttering idiot. I knew it was over but held out hope that maybe he would remember the first part...No I was dismissed with a thank you, and off I went.
I was disappointed, I had really hoped to make it so that I could win some of that money and give it back to my parents. They've done so much and it would been great to help them out with that! I try not to sound depressed or angry. It is just a game...what was meant to be was meant to be. We had fun anyway, that is for dang sure and know we can say we did it.
"but wait.....that's it.....I knew there was something else. We can send in an audition tape. We can say all the things we didn't get to say in the whole 40 seconds they gave me. They can see that we really are the best people for the show. Hey maybe they will even let us be on the show together as a team.....wouldn't that be cool? Ya that is what we will do". I start to perk up again with the idea (or it could have been i finally ate something after 9 hours of standing in line) or a little of both.
so there you go. I hope this made a bit of sense. it was super fun and if they ever come back we are doing it again....we are going to be on that show dang it and that is a fact! so although it was a no deal this time.........they haven't seen our audition tape!