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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I won some swearing from a Red Funnel ferry captain.When I was about 7 or 8, we went on a school trip to the Isle of Wight, but the trip was more about the journey up the Solent than it was about the Isle of Wight and there were some other schools along too.
There were some questions being asked by the tour guide over the tannoy. One was a question along the lines of "Apart from the River Test, can you name another river that flows into the Solent?"
I knew one!..the Itchen!
whoop!
And we were told if we knew the answer that we were to go and tell the captain and receive our prize.
I swear that's what we were told to do..in fact, all the other kids must have thought the same because although I arrived first, I was there with several other kids.
So we arrive at the captains room, and I politely give the answer, and the captain bellows "I wish you bloody kids would all just FUCK OFF!!". Which was perhaps not the first time I'd ever heard the phrase, but it was the first time I'd ever had it spat at me by an adult who really, really meant it.
My teacher asked what I won and I told her he told me I was wrong which, clearly, I wasn't.
People suck!
(, Tue 9 Aug 2005, 13:03, Reply)
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