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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Same bottle of cheap champagne twice.The department I work in has a tombola every christmas to fairly distribute the gifts we get from our suppliers. The standard win is a bottle of booze together with some calenders and other crap. One year I "won" a bottle of obviously cheap champagne. The thing is I hate champagne. Cheap one doubly so. So clever me simply kept said bottle of champagne at my desk, right at the window so it would get really bad in the sun. Handed it over to our department secretary next christmas to use it for the next tombola. I ended winning this bottle of cheap champagne again. Never participated in the tombola since.
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RedWine President of the S.C.U.M., Thu 4 Aug 2005, 20:21,
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