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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Nice one.Local radio cryptic quiz. Kept listening as people repeatedly gave the wrong answer, so through annoyance as much as anything I rung up and gave the correct one (answer was Superman but the questions elude me). Anyhow, they make good their promise and later that week I get an envelope.
Well excited I get me Dad to drive me to the radio station. Stride in and hand the envelope to the 'stunning' receptionist. The stunning part being that he was so fat he had to lean backwards in order to walk forwards as he begrudgingly (TBH, it musta been an effort) shuffled off and retrieved my prize.
My thoughts were racing as I bounced around the reception waiting for him to return. And return he did, slapping a Lantern FM mug in my hand with a "Cheers".
Cheers indeed. It was so unfeasibly filthy I didn't know where the scum finished and the logo began, yet even that didn't hide the fact it was pre-cracked.
They may well have found it funny at the time, but I ain't tuned in since. Who's laughing now?!
/sniff
(Oh no. I was proof reading this and I was gonna add about how I always wondered what they had been using something that 'scummy' for. It was a lie though cos I hadn't ever wondered what they had been using it for. Not til now)
(, Sun 7 Aug 2005, 20:01, Reply)
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