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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Recent holiday. Kids compo on plane. Cue my 7 year old daughter.On a plane to Majorca the cabin crew announced a competition to draw a picture. The winner on the plane gets a prize and their entry also gets the chance to go into the national compo and possibly win the grand final to be in a cancer awareness charity calendar. Nice one! My daughter toiled for nearly 3 fucking hours. I even chewed the wood back at the sharp end of the colouring pencils she was given, (we had no pencil sharpener).
WOO, she was announced the winner and was asked to stay in her seat at the end of the flight, (they really hyped it up the cunts). We did stay patiently in our seats while the whole plane emptied, speculating what she may have won, a colouring set? holiday vouchers? cash ?!?!?!?! We really thought she might be in for a treat... Finally, long after everyone had departed, the cabin crew arrived to award the grand prize...
A shitty bar of dairy milk, not even a big one, normal size.
I know it was for charity and whilst I do hope she may have contributed to saving anothers life, I still think it was a wanky prize...
We then had to get on a coach filled with nearly 200 people who had their holiday delayed for a bar of fucking dairy milk. They all knew it was my daughter who won and rather than congratulate us, they just stared menacingly at us as we descended the stairs of the plane. Even my daughter felt embarrassed.
(, Mon 8 Aug 2005, 23:19, Reply)
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