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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A summer camp I used to work at had a casino night as one evening's entertainment for all the families.Each person was given a cup of chips which had been kindly prelabelled with their name. The particularly unpleasant family that I was looking after for the week waddled off into the bingo room with their four older children, leaving me with their 8 month old baby who had also been assigned a cup of chips. There was nobody at the roulette wheel, so I put the whole thing down on 23 red, figuring it was better to get it over with and get the now screaming baby outside.
The ball dropped on 23 red. $1000 in pretend money with one number covered wins you $35000 in... pretend money.
Knowing full well what the prize for the "biggest winner" was, I totalled up the winnings and wrote the baby's name down. She won a camp uniform t-shirt, size adult medium. The same uniform I wore every day for four months.
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gracielou, Fri 5 Aug 2005, 11:35,
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