At work, I have won:
A scratch-off ticket that wasn’t worth anything.
A bucket of popcorn, a Blockbuster certificate for $10, and a copy of “The Mummy” starring Brendan Fraser.
A certificate saying that I won a contest with some co-workers.
At my dad's company picnic one year, I won an adding machine.
I know, it’s nothing compared to all your prizes, but I just wanted to be a part of it all.
Let’s see…2 tickets to a Bette Midler concert, $105 from the radio station on two occasions, Oldies cassette which I lost in a day, t-shirts, and various door prizes.
We are, each of us angels with only one wing,and we can only fly by embracing one another
It’s a tie between:
(1) Men’s 21-speed bike worth approx. $500 won at a membership lottery for Kanagawa Prefecture’s Agricultural Cooperative (the local version of Sam’s/Costco but they pay you to be a member);
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(2) “Liberty Lottery” ticket numbered under 100. Onboard the USS CARL VINSON, the command tried an interesting thing: instead of letting folks ashore by paygrade for liberty in Kenya one cruise, there was a drawing to see who got to leave the ship first: #1 went first, #2 second and so on. With an enlisted crew complement of approximately 3000, you can see why my ticket was cool.
$20,000 at the horsetrack…but, I donated it back to the track a couple of weeks later.
This is a story of the impetuousness of youth.
As a wee lad of around nine or ten, I used to listen to WNBC (660 AM), at the time a music station in NYC. They had a contest giving away two pairs of Jordache jeans (all the rage in NYC at the time I assure you) and a 2-liter bottle of Sprite.
When they announced the contest, i called in. To my surprise, I won. To my further surprise, my mom walked in on me after I recorded my little “My bumper sticker is on my garage door” crap, and I was not allowed to use the phone at that tender age. So I hung up.
Hung up WITHOUT giving them any information about who I was. As mom walked by, I was so bummed. Somwehow a few minutes on the radio was not worth it.
Being the adventurous tyke, I called information (now you see why I was not supposed to use the phone… seems I knew too much) and got the main number for WNBC and called it, pleading that I got disconnected.
Whomever answered the phone said, “I heard you on the air,” and took down my information. A week or so later, I had in my possession a coupon for two pairs of Jordache jeans and a 2-litre bottle of Sprite! I was psyched!
So the next weekend, dad takes us out to Roosevelt Mall out on the Island to redeem my coupon. They don’t have my size, exactly - it’s a bit tight. But Ii realized even then that tight jeans were quite the style! Well, actually, I was am impatient little pratt who wanted to have his jeans NOW, not a week later.
So I take my jeans home and wear them. One time each. Then, the washing makes them impossible to get into. My younger brother inherits them. So i got to wear them one time each, exactly, and watch my brother get all the glory.
Oh, and I fucking hate Sprite too.
Yer pal,
Satan
Four Metallica CDs (Kill Em All, Ride The Lightning, Master Of Puppets, …And Justice For All) from Z-Rock’s Back Rockward contest. Crankin’ Craig didn’t think anyone else had heard Martian Boogie before.
Wow, I love horse racing (I guess you could have been watching the dogs), but I’m a $2.00 window type of person. So unless I hit the huge odds or the trifecta or some other parlay bet, I’m small time.
My brother on the other hand is a HUGE gambler. He bought his first house off of poker money.
Enright3
Back in school I won $400 on a square in a Super Bowl (Bears v. Patriots). I felt pretty good about it until my roommate’s dad told me he had won $3000.
Reminds me of that song, “His wife was one in a million; my wife was won in a raffle”.
Seriously, though, I won a radio call-in contest in 1995. Listeners had to call up and imitate someone famous. After hearing some really lame-o imitations, I got pissed and called them up and imitated H. Ross Perot. The D.J. cracked up, and I won 2 tickets to see Miss Saigon on Broadway. It was a pretty nice anniversary present for me and the Missus.
One word of advice, though. NEVER, EVER take a pregnant woman to see Miss Saigon.
The Dave-Guy
“since my daughter’s only half-Jewish, can she go in up to her knees?” J.H. Marx
…and remember, duct tape fixes all your problems, big and small.
*An all-expenses paid ski vacation for me and a friend
*Dozens of free CDs, VHS movies, cassette tapes, movie tickets and one DVD from radio stations
*Full portrait package
*TV/VCR combo
*A gold medal for first place speech/public speaking nationally (Academic Decathlon)
*$50 on my very first scratch-off lottery ticket
*The cutest senior guy (for a day) in an auction to raise money for prom (I was a freshman)
I have a hobby. I have the world’s largest collection of seashells. I keep it scattered on beaches all over the world. Maybe you’ve seen some of it.
I was one of four seniors in my high school class who won ‘going to college’ appliances at our post prom… I won a microwave!!! It has been a blessing to my college roommates and myself for 4 years now! Along with that microwave, came a 30 gallon Coleman Cooler, for some reason. But, I think the coolest thing I’ve won was a loose 2.35 Carat pear cut blue topaz that from an Intramural Recreation function here at school. I plan on having a pendant setting made for it here shortly. (Now all I have to do is find someone to give it to!)
“If we submit everything to reason, our religion will have no mysterious or supernatural element. If we offend the principles of reason, our religion will be absurd and ridiculous.” Blaise Pascal
Best thing that happened to me in 1999: I won a free trip to Woodstock '99 from a local (Seattle) radio station.
Worst thing that happened to me in 1999 I actually went to Woodstock '99.
Leslie Irish Evans
http://leslie.scrappy.net