Sometimes you do win free stuff!

I often enter contests online or do those "give us your feedback for a chance to win!"  It takes a couple minutes and I'm convinced that some day I'll win something! 

Meanwhile in the real world, there's opportunities like this (at our local restaurant) to win:

 

So for .25 at the very least I'll get a gumball.. that's a risk I'm willing to take! Much to our surprise and happiness it was yellow = free cake! 

We ordered out meals and got the cake to go.. this thing was massive! 

 

Then just to round out the trip the waitress forgot to ring in our drinks so we got what I think was a great deal on breakfast platters, plus I took half my meal home for another day - and brought home on all the jams, syrups and butters they gave us o our plates and we didn't use.