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Hey Shirley, This Time It’s You

“What did I win?” asked Shirley Dudzinski when AdJack told her we were looking forward to a conversation with her about her recent good fortune. 

“I saw over on the right side of the site on the sweepstakes page that somebody named Shirley had won on August 7, but it had no last name or state. I just thought, ‘that’s not me.’ It’s never me.

“I am still surprised!  I’ve been doing sweepstakes for twenty years, and all I’ve ever won is a couple of $25 gift cards.  I’ve kept hoping that someday I’d win something big. This comes at a great time.  My lounge chair is falling apart, and I’ve had to replace my sky lights.”

Shirley, who describes herself as a “young 80,” walks the steps to her third floor condo in Vernon Hills, Illinois at least twice a day. “It’s good for your heart,” she says.  She reads books when she’s not watching commercials on AdJack.  She looks forward to postings of new commercials on the site.  “So does my son,” she says.  “He doesn’t have a computer of his own, so he likes to watch them when he comes to visit me.  ‘Any new ones this week?’ he always asks.

“I’ve been playing for a couple of years now.  I love to watch the unusual ones. Sometimes I think, great, this or that company has finally got themselves a good advertising agency.”

She was an Internet pioneer in the school system she once served.  “I’m good at details, and I like to work with numbers, so they said I would be perfect for learning this new computer stuff.  They gave me books on programming. All I had to do was teach the students.  I had to review stuff, and play all the names for math and social studies.  I guess they thought I had an adolescent mind,” she says, laughing.  When she retired, she finally got a computer of her own, supplied by a brother-in-law.  “My other son who works with computers all the time came and hooked me up, and since then, I’ve been addicted.”

Grandmother to five, great grandmother to a girl and new boy, and about to be a great great aunt for the second time, she’s thinking about enrolling in a computer class for seniors.  “I’ll catch up on all that new Twitter, Face Book, You Tube, and such.”