You've won an iPod! only an ipod though.

[prb]

Location: Camera store
Today around 2 pm

I'm in line buying some supplies for black and white developing and a roll of colour film. Other person is at the counter to claim a prize from a local charity lottery.

Their prize: iPod Shuffle

The ticket was in his mother's name, so he went on her behalf. Was told to either bring a signed letter saying he can pick it up or they can mail it to her. (Lottery policy). He asked what the value of the ipod shuffle is, was told $89, and said it wasn't worth his time to even come to claim it once.

Short conversation between me and the two people working there leads me to believe that other people have complained about the value of the prizes, of course I directed them here.

Seriously people, you WON SOMETHING IN A LOTTERY. YOU HAD A BETTER CHANCE OF NOT WINNING. WHAT THE FUCK IS YOUR PROBLEM AND WHAT MAKES YOU THINK YOU CAN COMPLAIN, HELL YOU SHOULD BE LOOKING AT IT AS A $100 DONATION TO CANCER RESEARCH WITH A $89 BONUS, NOT "OH I'M ONLY GETTING $89" WHAT THE FUCK?!?!? (sorry about the caps lock, errr... and i suppose to some people sorry about the language)

If an employee of Henry's Mississauga is reading this any discount available to me on a nikon 70-300 vr lens?

[rageaholic]

If he doesn't like it, he can always sell it. I hope someone more appreciative got it in his place.

[LillFilly]

That's a pretty nice ipod though; probably 4GB, enough to hold songs for your workout or a long car ride. Guy's probably complaining cause his mom said he couldn't have it!

[prb]

That's a pretty nice ipod though; probably 4GB, enough to hold songs for your workout or a long car ride. Guy's probably complaining cause his mom said he couldn't have it!

Actually he was older than me so I'm assuming the reason his mom didn't pick it up is that she either can't or he split the cost of a 3 pack of tickets with her.

[Sheldonrs]

I'm just the opposite. I will enter any and every drawing or contest I can. And if the prize is a bottle of dish soap, I'll take 3 buses and a cab to claim it.
I just like winning prizes. It doesn't matter what it is.

[NightWatch]

I'm just the opposite. I will enter any and every drawing or contest I can. And if the prize is a bottle of dish soap, I'll take 3 buses and a cab to claim it.
I just like winning prizes. It doesn't matter what it is.

That reminds me!! A coworker (sort of, different department) was big on winning prizes. He entered every contest known to man. He would scower parks for bottlecaps with prize codes in them and force his children to help him. They dedicated hours a day to sending into those sweepstakes. They'd buy cat litter for the contest advertised on it, even though they had no pets. Their family made it on Trading Spouses. It was really awkward cuz he kept telling us "Oh, watch my family on TLC on this day!!" So we did, in the office. He's a certifiable nut, and we all got an in depth look of someone we WORKED with doing this. We were all glad that he had quit before the show aired on TV cuz I don't think anyone would have been able to look him in the eye after that.

[depechemodefan]

I like putting in codes from my sodas on the sodas's website. I get free movie tickets that way. And because my cws are a bunch of elitists, they look at me asquewed.

[NightWatch]

I like putting in codes from my sodas on the sodas's website. I get free movie tickets that way. And because my cws are a bunch of elitists, they look at me asquewed.

There is nothing wrong with liking to put in cap codes or entering every contest that falls in your lap. It only becomes a problem when you are so obsessed that it comes across as an addiction and your friends start introducing you to therapists. As for your cw's, what jerks. If I worked with you, I'd save my bottle caps for you so you could have the codes. A lady I work with used to do that, she always got my caps. I'd even save her the codes off the packs of soda I'd buy for my house and bring them to her. She was trying to save up points for a vacation.