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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on your ownWhen I was at school one year we had a quiz to win a lovely big bumper pack of chocolate. The question was 'why is boxing day called boxing day'. Me being the tubby, sweet toothed little twunt I was and am I entered. No one else did.
On the day the result was read I sat unaware in the assembly hall with the ENTIRE SCHOOL when they read out my name. Yay thinks me until i realise I had to make my way to the stage in front of everyone to collect my prize. Rather than just handing over the sweet chocolately gooness the head mistress decided to tell all the school that I was the only one smart enough to answer and then proceeded to get me to tell everyone what the answer was. As she handed me the choccy she patted me on the head for good measure. My embarrassment was completed when someone, quite rightly, disgusted with what looked land sounded like contempt & smugness simply shouted 'YOU TWAT'. As I left the stage and went back to my seat everyone I passed took their cue from the anonymous gobby git and hurled hilarious witty banter, better known as outright abuse at me. I was going to console myself with the choclate until my brother and his friends nicked the lot off me as I left the hall. The bastards. I've never entered a quiz since!
(, Thu 11 Aug 2005, 11:25, Reply)
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