Crappy PrizesCompetitions, raffles, give-aways... sure the prizes look great, but don't they always turn out a bit crap should you happen to win them?
The last raffle I bought tickets for, they'd just given away the all-expenses paid weekend in New York when my number came up. Rushing up to find out what I'd won, I was a little disappointed to be handed a box of "Biscuits for Cheese". Especially as they were busy serving the cheese course (complete with biscuits) as they drew the raffle.
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chthonic, Thu 4 Aug 2005, 11:16)
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...The first thing I ever won was first prize in a 1987 Encyclopaedia Britannica contest I entered at my local milkbar. Seven years old and the only one who entered, I actually received second prize which was an inflatable world globe. My cat attacked and burst it 10 minutes later. I could have won first prize which was a world fact book, albeit ten years out of date, but the contest organiser had already claimed that one. Fuck you milkbar competition.
Second thing I won was a lovely lockable cashbox at a local school activity day that same year. I was stoked till I found out it was just the cardboard box which once contained said lockbox. What the hell sort of prize is an empty cardboard box?
Heartbroken and bitter, I have never since had the will to enter a competition. Not even the one on here to win a Playstation.
(, Wed 10 Aug 2005, 11:09, Reply)
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