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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Raffly crapAt a scouts coffee morning when i was about 8. Lots of mums shouting at kids to not have fun. Grannies napping, with coffee. I must've been blessed and damned all in one. On the raffle I won 2 bottles of wine - one red one white. Prizes, obviously nabbed by the folks with a knowing wink and 'that's our girl!'I also entered a competition to guess the number of marbles in a pot. I guessed it right and won the marbles. About 150 odd chipped pieces of glass that didn't roll, but had to be pushed.
Years later I won a box of black magic at school for knowing what 'passing the buck' meant. Nasty chocolate to give child. Wondered if the dog would like em, seeing as i didn't.
They came out almost exactly as they had looked when they went in.
(, Thu 11 Aug 2005, 13:14, Reply)
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