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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one trip to france......two crappy prizes.
i must have been about 14 or so and on the coach trip to france i won a teddy bear in the raffle that was designed to stop a bunch of teenagers from going completely insane on the motorways between newcastle and dover. while we were in france we had to keep a diary - to justify the educational nature of the trip rather than the 'buying local wines and getting shitfaced' nature that the rest of us adopted. when we got back to blighty we had a prize giving session for the diary writers. i heckled the guy who came in second place (first and last time i ever did this) and then promptly won first prize. bastard. i won a 'snoopy' stationary set. it was in french. it was as gay as a bag of butterflies.
[edit: after reading through some of the other crap prizes i've just remembered that i won the meat bingo at some pub years ago. i was vegetarian at the time.]
lh
(, Mon 8 Aug 2005, 7:11, Reply)
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