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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Spelling BeesI was in grade school and got entered into a spelling bee by my teacher because I scored well on a spelling test. I didn't want to be there but there I was. After a couple of brutal days of eliminations, I finally got put away and that was the end of the contest.
A couple of days later I received the plaque in the mail and was surprised to see that the judges (or whoever made up the plaque) had misspelled my name! How ironic is that? I kept that around for a while as a conversation piece until I got old enough to figure out that it wasn't really impressing the girls.
(, Wed 10 Aug 2005, 4:00, Reply)
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