Now is the time to get on my good side.  I’m about to be very, very, very rich.

Sure, it’s your right to be skeptical.  I would say that’s even wise.  But look, cards that randomly arrive in the mail do not lie.  They just don’t.

That’s right, $15 million big ones.  The back of this card has all kinds of legal words and other words, which actually explain that the payout pool is more like $14.95 million, but who’s counting?

I’m fairly sure I would be a leading contender for getting the bulk of the funds because I bought not just one, but TEN electrolytic capacitors back in 2011.  I needed them to fix an old reel-to-reel tape player that was roughly 40 years old and lacking a few working parts.

Now that I think about it, though, maybe promising you money was not the best move.  It occurs to me that I didn’t spend anywhere near $14.95 million on those capacitors, which are small enough they would be barely noticeable in your pocket.  I think I paid just under $10 for all of them, including shipping.

So scratch what I said at the top.  There will be no big class-action cash for this guy, but I can give you a capacitor if you’d like.  I still have seven of them laying around.

And if you want to see more/hear the result of the reel-to-reel fixing mission, check out this post for the backstory, and this one for the meatier story about audio tapes my mom’s family sent back and forth with her father while he was deployed in Vietnam and Korea.