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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Esso petroleumOnce did some work experience with a mate at Esso Petroleum. We managed to blag a day off when there was some conference and got to sit in on mind-bogglingly dull presentations instead of doing the mind-bogglingly dull work we should have been doing. There was some quiz for all the attendees and we were thrilled when we won, thinking we'd just beaten all these PhD MEng boffins, when, clearly, they hadn't been bothered, or may have seen the prizes on offer. Which were... two different sets of safety glasses (One a rather fetching sporty sunglasses affair)- woo! For the rest of GCSE Chemistry I thought I was the envy of all my scratched-lensed, loose-armed safety-spec wearing Chemistry chums. Who knows, maybe I was.
(, Tue 9 Aug 2005, 10:56, Reply)
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