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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Novelty PassportIn my early teens I left my passport on a bus while on holiday in Turkey, so the kind staff at the resort we were at mocked me up a giant version with ruckstrap style straps so I couldn't lose it (do you see??!!) and presented it to me in front of all the guests at dinner.
Cnuts thought it was funny, though, funnily enough being humiliated in front of a hundred or so people, including the girl I had a desperate crush on, at a stage of my life where I was in a more or less permanent state of embarrasment anyway, was about as funny as bowel cancer.
(, Wed 10 Aug 2005, 0:12, Reply)
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