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Today I sat at Starbucks for four hours finishing my critical book review for Theology. My second trip to the counter for coffee, I got the “long receipt” with the “go do our customer survey and be entered to win a $1000″ deal. When the alternative is more studying, one does these.

The survey took five minutes (“was your beverage hot?” “were you uplifted by your experience?”), and at the end, I clicked the small print leading to the rules. It was a legal-looking pdf, which, being me, means I read them.

And now I know why I don’t want to live in Canada:

If a resident of Canada is selected as a winner, they will be required to correctly answer, without assistance of any kind, whether mechanical or otherwise, a timed, mathematical skill-testing question, to be administered by Marden- Kane, Inc. either by mail, telephone, e-mail, or fax (at its sole discretion) before the awarding of the prize.

uh. seriously??

1) why? 2) if I was Canadian I’d never win any money.