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 brass band I play inholds a raffle at each of our concerts, as we are hideously poor and need the money. All the prizes are "generously donated" by band members. Usually these run along the lines of £3 bottles of wine picked up on the way to the concert, mixed in with the odd unwanted-Christmas-present scented candle or bottle of bath salts. Not for our percussionist, though. Oh no. Much too dull. Some of his more memorable "star items" have included a shower head (slightly used), and a shackle. At least the shackle was new...
I pity whichever poor old biddy toddled away with those ones...
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kikilookeylikey, Thu 4 Aug 2005, 13:54,
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