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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That's fantastic! Oh no, that's AWFULMe and my sister aged about 8 and 10 at church fete. Sister and I spot a games stall, and having never come across anything like it before, Dad coughs up a dollar for us both to chuck a ball at a Coconut (this is in the 70's mind you!). Sister actually winds up a respectable throw and manages to hit the coconut which she is presented with as her prize.
I am all excited, maybe I'll win one too! Throw the ball, knock the nut, but it doesn't fall off the stand. I get a consolation prize of a little plastic dolly with a tutu on a long thin piece of cane. I am more excited than ever! Until mum takes it off me, pulls the doll off the stick, hands the doll back to me, and keeps a hold on the stick, telling us that when we are naughty she now has something to smack us with!!!! Kind of took the gloss off the day. Using a toy to threaten your kids (she never actually had to use it, but we were threatened by the doll-stick for some years to come). Now THAT's parenting.
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Shazzoir Old enough to know better young enough not to care, Fri 5 Aug 2005, 14:02,
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