Well, we are basically done following along on my Wheel of Fortune journey. I may have a few more posts about it, but we’ve pretty much covered it all. And thank you for coming alone with me!
I know that it is beyond extraordinarily unlikely that I will ever in my life get to play Wheel of Fortune again – especially because right now, the rules dictate I can’t.
Once you go on once, you can never go on again.
Now, there are outside possibilities – like, conceivably I could maybe become a celebrity at some point, and get to play celebrity Wheel of Fortune (because I’m guessing in a special circumstance like that, they probably let you play again if you’ve played as a normal person before).
Also, when Bob Barker retired from The Price is Right, they changed the rules so that if you’d been on in Bob’s era, you could now come on with Drew. (The official rule is you have to wait 10 years since your first appearance.) And now Drew has been on for so long, you could’ve been on in Drew’s era, and still come back.
So, perhaps when Pat Sajak retires, they’ll change the rules.
Like, things are always possible… but… unlikely.
I also kind of worry the Wheel of Fortune people hate me, but I didn’t like destroy set pieces or act like a complete jerk. I just had a toddler moment when winning the game. But I don’t think I was mean to anyone per se. So, I think the insecure narrative in my head that they hate me is probably not super accurate. 😉 (Hopefully!)
I do wish they did the Jeopardy! thing, where if you win you just keep going. Can you imagine if I’d been able to keep it together, and play multiple games? [And the insanely ridiculously long blog series of breaking them all down.]
It really wasn’t toooooo bad of a game. I mean, I got the Express Wedge, and the trip, which was an absolute dream. So, if I never get my “redemption,” it could certainly be worse.
And I think the idea that lightening would strike twice – that I could have a theme week that made the puzzle so obvious that I could solve it with no letters, and that I’d happen to be in control of the board at that moment… That’s super unlikely. So, I’ll probably never get that moment back (although again you never know).
I did the best I could with what I had, and where I was in life that day. And that’s all you can ask for, I suppose. I’d love to play again, but with how fickle games of chance are, you never know if it would go better. So, I’ll just try to enjoy the time I had… And go on my sweet, sweet trip!