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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Super Spaceshuttle modelWhen I was about ten I won a competition in the local paper, writing some story about the future and doing a drawing, I think. In any case the prize was a big model of the shuttle. Like one of the cool big Revell ones, 1/24th or something. I could barely get my hands to stretch around the box - that's how good it was. Then they took my picture and wrote a whole piece about the "space genius" kid.
Ruined my chances with all the hot p7 chicks - that's for sure.
Anyway, did any of the buggers who went and bought it bother their hairy arses checking if all the bits were there? Did they feck! The sellotape was still on it. I wasn't allowed to open it at the presentation ceremony in the town hall either, for which I hold my mum eternally responsible.
Finally I get home and discover that half the tail is missing, like the mould wasn't totally full or something. It wasn't like I could take it back to the shop, we never got a receipt, did we? I tried to persuade my mum to get a new bit from Revell but she told me I could fill it up with papier mache and "nobody would notice". NNNGGGG!!!
After getting my pic in the paper everyone kept asking me how it was going, and I mumbled something about it being great but a lot of work to do it right. Bastard thing is probably still in the loft somewhere.
(, Thu 11 Aug 2005, 12:22, Reply)
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