Comments on: The Prize

By: marcia v

marcia v — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 12:46:55 +0000

Thats funny I won a pumpkin in 5th grade at a new club meeting (Stepping Stones) I only went to 1-2 times

By: Lisandrea

Lisandrea — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 01:24:10 +0000

When I was around six or seven yeras old I won the Easter Egg hunt at our church & got a huge stuffed bunny and a lot of multi-colored sugary eggs with the hard outer crusts. On my son’s third Easter, he won the Easter Egg hunt at our apartment complex and received a basketfull of goodies plus a Charlie Brown stuffed doll. Guess it runs in the family! My husband won a photo in the newspaper with the humongous pumpkin he grew. I suppose we’ve actually won several things over the years–through company raffles, or movie tickets, every few years we hit it in some small way! Dh is particularly lucky this way.

By: Lotus Carroll

Lotus Carroll — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 22:32:34 +0000

[And then with trembling knees and sweating brow, my pumpkin and I slowly melted to the ground.]

I love the visual!

Of course, my biggest prize by far has been the little trickster I call my son. Cliche, clickclick, I know.

By: your other jewish mother

your other jewish mother — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 20:44:38 +0000

In high school I got a phone call from McDonalds and because I could say “two all beef patties special sauce lettuce cheese pickles onions on a sesame seed bun” in less than 10 seconds I was sent a t-shirt. Hooray for me. And 30 years later, I can still say it.

By: jen

jen — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 16:49:11 +0000

I won a thing of Ice Cream from Baskin Robbins…go ahead and say it,,,,,,YOUR JEALOUS!

By: Jolyn

Jolyn — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 13:54:37 +0000

Oops, I just looked over the comment and thought that “carneval” looked funny. Yea, I know it’s “carnival”. I truly got it mixed up with “carnevale” (Kar-nay-vah-lay), as in the Italian Mardi Gras. Really! We moved from Italy not too long ago, and while I can’t profess to be proficient in Italian or to even be the party-hard Mardi Gras kind of gal … some things just get in your brain and get you confused. Please don’t hold it against me! heh-heh.

By: Jolyn

Jolyn — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 13:46:14 +0000

When I was in the sixth grade I participated in a “cake walk” at some community carnival. You paid your ticket to walk around some chairs with the other participants, and when the music stopped you sat on a chair with a number. If your chair number matched the one they drew, you won a cake.
I stayed for turn after turn, long after people who came after me had won their cake, or had gotten tired and left. I stayed so long that they took away chairs, trying to improve my chances. They obviously felt sorry for me.
But I never did win a cake. Though I played until the carneval was closing and I was the sole one traipsing around two chairs.
I was prepubescent and the sensitive sort to boot; I walked away so disappointed I was almost in tears. Only the shame of someone seeing me crying kept them from pouring down.
I have won things since then, but for some reason walking away empty-handed from that blasted cake walk came to mind. Why didn’t they just give me a cake?! Sure, it would’ve been “breaking the rules” and all, but cut a kid a break already. It was obvious the day was over and the rest of the donated cakes were not going to be “won”.
Even looking back with all the “wisdom” and experiences life has given me, hard knocks and all that, I think those ladies were short-sighted not to make an exception for one young girl. But the upside is, to this day I am sensitive to anyone getting the shorter end of the stick and how it’s affecting them. Yea, “life isn’t fair”, but neither are people, and sometimes a softer touch can go a long way.

By: edj

edj — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 02:32:56 +0000

I “never” win anything except once I won $1000 from a rock station!! Everyone at my office was trying to win; the receptionist would keep track of how many songs they played, and then we’d all start hitting “redial” and trying to win. (It was a small office) I used the money to buy a new computer so I could work from home.

By: Amrita Singh

Amrita Singh — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 04:26:03 +0000

Too bad you couldn ‘t turn that pumpkin into cinderella ‘s carriage. These days i win all sorts of spam prizes which i delete as junk mail…they are all scams

By: Pat Kirk

Pat Kirk — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 08:13:36 +0000

Kathy: I forgot. I win those too. They want to give me all kinds of money if I will just send them a few thousand first.

Sadly, I don’t have the few thousands or I would be rich beyond belief:-)