Originally Posted by Sarah_MaxCash

My 60 year old mother, who just had a knee replaced also happens to be a recently retired science teacher. She keeps entering some contest that runs along with March Madness where the idea is for educators to predict the weather in the towns where the teams are from at the time of their matches. The top prize is to go storm chasing. Year after year she came second. I have been happy about this because the idea of her going storm chasing scared me. This year, she won. I was getting ready to worry when she found out that since she had retired before the contest was over she wasn't eligible for the top prize because that had to go to an 'active' teacher.