I'm a Winner!!!!!!!

I thought it was a scam at first, even reported it to the police who didn't really seem all that interested. But I kept checking all the possibilities and had called the wrong hardware store. The owner had given the phone number of the wrong hardware store here in town. I called them and they said there was nothing going like that at all. After further investigation, I found out the owner owned both hardware stores plus lots of other businesses so he was confused. I really was put on alert when he said meet him at the bank he had papers for me to sign. The police said he would have gotten me there then told me he need twenty bucks to process the paper work. So, I did finaly call the other hardware. They told me indeed I had won and come into the hardware store. The manager met me, more excited than I was because I still was in denial because I just don't go around winning things. He showed me the slip of paper that I had put my name and phone number on and dropped into the box. He said my name was drawn out of thousands of names by a customer who they had do the drawing. When I waw that little piece of paper with my signature and phone number I remembered filling it out and dropping it into the slot in the box. Here it is: I WON $1,000.00 in merchandise at the hardware store. Guess what I did next, I went out and bought a lottery ticket. That was fruitles, LOL. So I got to pick out that much merchandise from their fall catalog.