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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DadNo, I didn't win him, though he would be a great dad to win as a prize.
He has the worst taste in choosing a prize though. At the local music association concerts (ie where my sis played clarinet and we had to sit through the same pieces for years and years) they used to have this raffle, and somehow even though pretty much EVERYONE was pressganged into buying tickets we used to win a prize.
But my dad would go up there (cos my mum is too shy) and choose the worst thing there completely unknowing of its crapness. We had crappy books, but the best thing was this HIDEOUS chinese tea set.
We gave it back the next year.
Also we once won on the tombola (never enter a tombola).
We won a small can of ravioli. It went to the Harvest Festival the next year and we still laugh about it now.
(, Sat 6 Aug 2005, 14:52, Reply)
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