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to want the prize I won??

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Dogue · 09/12/2022 07:28

In the grand scheme of things I’m probably being petty, but this has really annoyed me -

our village had a Christmas fair last Saturday. On Monday I had a missed call from a mobile number which turned out to be the organisers of the event. I rang back and she said was ringing to tell me I’d won a prize, but that she was out at the moment so didn’t have details but would ring me back in half an hour to let me know.

I didn’t hear back from her on Monday so I called again on Wednesday (didn’t get a chance on Tuesday) and she said the same again - someone would call me back later with details of what I’d won and how to collect.

by Thursday I still hadn’t heard from them so I texted the number about it. I got the reply: “sorry, all prizes had to be collected by Wednesday. We can give you a bottle of Prosecco as a consolation”

I’m so annoyed that I wasn’t given any opportunity to collect my prize on time. From memory the only thing I think I put my phone number down for was when my 6 year old entered the ‘guess how many sweets in the jar’ so I was really excited to tell him he had won. I’m not really bothered about having a massive jar of jellies in my house, but if that’s what we’ve won then it’s what I want! When I told her this she said she would make sure there’s a consolation prize for him too, but that’s no use really as it means I don’t get the loveliness of telling him his guess was the winner.

obviously there are much bigger things to worry about in the world right now, but it’s a bit shit and terrible organisation right??

OP posts:
Starrystarrylights · 09/12/2022 14:27

Great outcome. They were definitely in the wrong and too quick to take over the prizes. Nice bit of small town corruption there.

ifIwerenotanandroid · 09/12/2022 14:29

Hurrah for OP!

LOVE the gracious way it was presented to you.😂

Ereshkigalangcleg · 09/12/2022 14:29

That's brilliant, and a nice kilner jar to keep after!

Darcy101 · 09/12/2022 14:30

BaconMassive · 09/12/2022 14:27

Send a message:

"how come we guessed 400 but there are only 50 sweets in this jar?"

😂😂😂

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 09/12/2022 14:30

"how come we guessed 400 but there are only 50 sweets in this jar?"

Should have stuck your foot in her door and veeeery slowly counted all the sweets, to make sure that you were indeed likely the closest, "as we'd hate to end up with a prize that should have gone to somebody else".

healthadvice123 · 09/12/2022 14:30

@ShirleywasaLady multiple people involved , so one is thinking the other has done it.
I really don't think anyone is up for stealing a shitty small jar of sweets.
Maybe someone else handed the wrong prize out as probably multiple raffles / prizes etc going on
Its a £5 of sweets nothing huge

diddl · 09/12/2022 14:30

I'd be tempted to chuck the sweets & refill if you think that some have been eaten.

I'd have entered the comp for the jar!

oakleaffy · 09/12/2022 14:31

@Dogue From that picture, someone has had their ''Filthy maulers'' in that jar!

That isn't a full jar.
But well done sticking to your guns.

ifIwerenotanandroid · 09/12/2022 14:31

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 09/12/2022 14:30

"how come we guessed 400 but there are only 50 sweets in this jar?"

Should have stuck your foot in her door and veeeery slowly counted all the sweets, to make sure that you were indeed likely the closest, "as we'd hate to end up with a prize that should have gone to somebody else".

😂

LookItsMeAgain · 09/12/2022 14:31

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 09/12/2022 14:06

I wonder if the OP will turn up to find she actually won a child's drum kit, then this will turn into "how do I refuse the prize I won?"

Somebody else has already suggested that it might be a snare....

I see what you did there @WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll and I like it! 😆

oakleaffy · 09/12/2022 14:32

Starrystarrylights · 09/12/2022 14:27

Great outcome. They were definitely in the wrong and too quick to take over the prizes. Nice bit of small town corruption there.

😂👌''Small town corruption''

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 09/12/2022 14:34

That's brilliant, and a nice kilner jar to keep after!

Yes, but it could so easily have been used as a deadly weapon, had OP not had the evidence of this thread.

I'd be tempted to chuck the sweets & refill if you think that some have been eaten.

She could have refilled it with those nasty sugar-free gummi sweets that leave you scarpering and sitting howling on the bog for an hour at a time. There was clearly guilt and menace in her response.

StrikeandRobin · 09/12/2022 14:36

oakleaffy · 09/12/2022 14:31

@Dogue From that picture, someone has had their ''Filthy maulers'' in that jar!

That isn't a full jar.
But well done sticking to your guns.

Yeah, I don’t think I’d want my DC eating anything out of there tbh.

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 09/12/2022 14:36

Whenever your paths cross in the future, never use her real name - always address her as 'Sweetie' every single time!

Fortheloveofall · 09/12/2022 14:37

Don’t eat the sweets in an opened jar! Who knows what they have done to them 🤣🤣🤣🤣

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 09/12/2022 14:39

Don’t eat the sweets in an opened jar! Who knows what they have done to them

To be fair, even if it had gone innocently as planned and not ending up turning into a crime scene, you would still have had somebody's grubby mitts all over the sweets, counting them as they're put into the jar.

Funkyslippers · 09/12/2022 14:40

healthadvice123 they could admit this instead of pretending that all the prizes needed to have been collected by the very short 'deadline'.

WeepingSomnambulist · 09/12/2022 14:42

There are no where near 400 sweets in that jar.
Did they maybe make you a mistake in calling you as the winner and then they've tried to just get around it by offering you wine. And now they've had to ask the person with the sweets to give them to you? After their kids have eaten some, cos even full, they weren't getting 400 sweets in that jar.

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 09/12/2022 14:44

There are no where near 400 sweets in that jar.
Did they maybe make you a mistake in calling you as the winner and then they've tried to just get around it by offering you wine.

Maybe there are only 200 sweets in there.... hence them wanting OP to get boozed up, so that it looks like 400?!

SliceOfCakeCupOfTea · 09/12/2022 14:44

healthadvice123 · 09/12/2022 14:25

@Chouetted but they offer to fix they offered OP a consolation for her and something for her son
If the OP has won the sweets and they have been handed out to someone else in error , what else can they do ?
No wonder anywhere struggles to get volunteers it seems simple mistakes cannot ever be made

How is a bottle of prosecco a reasonable consolation prize for a child?

I volunteer at our school fairs all the time and when mistakes are made, we apologise and try to put it right firstly, then if we can't, we offer an appropriate consolation prize ie not giving alcohol to a child instead of sweets...

Womencanlift · 09/12/2022 14:45

The reaction or lack of one at the door plus it being a different address makes it look like the organisers were being CFs and kept it for themselves.

Or they messed up gave it to someone else and when you started quoting licensing laws they contacted the new winner and said sorry you need to give it to the proper winner. Hence why it wasn’t as full as expected

Either ways the organisers messed up

SliceOfCakeCupOfTea · 09/12/2022 14:46

WeepingSomnambulist · 09/12/2022 14:42

There are no where near 400 sweets in that jar.
Did they maybe make you a mistake in calling you as the winner and then they've tried to just get around it by offering you wine. And now they've had to ask the person with the sweets to give them to you? After their kids have eaten some, cos even full, they weren't getting 400 sweets in that jar.

This sounds like the most likely explanation.

OP is if definitely the same jar? I reckon she's just been along the corner shop and pulled that together

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 09/12/2022 14:46

That ridiculously short deadline is the equivalent of when you give kids a bag of sweets and tell them to ask their siblings if they want some - and then they do so in the world record for the quietest, least audible whisper ever!

Nottodaysausage · 09/12/2022 14:47

100 percent they have farted in that jar before resealing

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 09/12/2022 14:48

100 percent they have farted in that jar before resealing

No, I can't see any flumps in there Grin