to want the prize I won??

[Dogue]

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??

An explanation is usually a good place to start, in my experience.

Next time take a picture of the jar after guessing, OP.

We need to organise a MN flashmob outside the organiser's house and all sing a rousing extended version of 'The Candyman' at full volume. Grabbing my cane now!

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

True, true.

Somebody must have invented a sophisticated app by now, specifically for this purpose - where you can use lasers, downloaded product dimensions, Euclidian physics and geo-positioning to tell you exactly how many sweets there are in any given jar at any given fete.

Some scabby git really tried to steal a jar of sweets!

Well done for standing up for yourself and getting your boys sweets!

Next time?? There will be no next time! I’m scarred for life now.

Looking at the jar I'm pretty certain it’s not the original. I never would have guessed 400 for this one. (Even after a few mulled wines.) and some of the types of sweets are different.

I’ll count them later on. If anyone can guess how many there really are then they can go and collect the Prosecco I didn’t claim from the other address!*

*subject to lottery licensing laws

So weird the person didn’t try and call you back and then obviously decided to give the prize to someone else or keep it and tuck in themselves. Well done OP for getting the prize, I would have felt the same if one of my DC had won it. Hope your son enjoys his prize!

Her kids have eaten them and she's probably got an unwanted present of a bottle of Prosecco she's trying to palm you off with.Let's face it;we all know someone like this.

Ha ha ha ha this thread keeps on giving! I think there's about 50 sweets in that jar. She's totally had to put together a second jar because the first one has gone to somebody else!

That is not 400 sweets 😂

Glad you got your jar though!

that's hilarious 😂

In fairness the sweets look lovely.

I just laughed and borked at the same time. Cheers

Brilliant thread. Thanks OP. Glad you've got the sweets but no way that is 400!! Not even near. Brought up memories I'd forgotten of the time I held a home party for my sil to kick start her business. Yes was an MLM but we were stupid back then. At these dos the host gets a certain gift at the end and an even better one if sales reached a certain level. Anyway I went to collect the items from my sil to give to the purchasers. She handed me the fabulous gift I was looking forward to and said could I pass it into to 'Sam' as she was wanting one and thought be a nice present for her. So I had to take MY host gift to a mutual friend while frothing internally at the injustice of it all. 😭. I did say something to my sil and she came over all confused so I just let it slide. She's a lovely sil in every other way x

the trick to the "guess the number of sweets" thing is to hide in the centre of the jar either a bunch of those tiny rolled-up tubes of violet sweets (counting each tube as 16 sweets so a handful can be 100) or some enormous gobstoppers - then fill all the space around that is visible with more average sized sweets. then all the reasonably calculated guesses are way off. if they did this and the actual number is 280 but they made it look like it was a small number of larger sweets then it could be that your 400 guess was closest because the next-closest was only 155 (which looks about right for the jar in the pic)

Well your little boy will be thrilled OP so well done you! And you can tell him the tale of your heroic prize pursuit when he's a bit older - it IS quite a good story!

I made sure to give my partner the address I was going to just incase I was murdered LOL.

They definitely nicked some sweets

Pfft.. jar doesn't even look all that clean, but no matter - that is NOT a full jar of sweets and who the heck does a 'guess the number of sweets' with a partially filled jar!

Someones had their handies in the sweetie jar and then been told they have to hand it over!

I think you were right to pursue. Trivial as it seems, they shouldn't be taking peoples money if they aren't going to give the prize. Someone has clearly followed the £5 make your own jar from pound land tip, posted above, and cobbled together that unappealing jar of loot.

I wouldn't be eating any of it. I was expecting a tall jar, like the sort you get in an old fashioned sweet shop behind the counter. There's no way you guessed 400 on that when it probably contains less than 100. It's not full and they haven't even mixed them - just dumped three bags of whatever into their £1 jar.

Being a "poor volunteer" doesn't give you carte blanche to sub prizes with any old shit you've got lingering in your cupboard. I'd be pissed off if volunteers for my organisation thought this was OK.

If it's a simple mistake you fess up and apologise and then offer the alternative. You don't just suddenly put in an arbitrary collection date having failed to deal with the collection arrangements on two phone calls and then not call the person back! Volunteer or not that's out of order.

Wow. How fucking rude.

And they ate half your (DS's) prize.....

Glad you got your real prize, even if they did eat half the sweets before handing it over - feckers!

I'm firmly in the "The Jar's The Best Part of The Prize" camp!

There are 100 sweets in that jar, max. It’ll be interesting to know how many there actually are and if it matches your sons guess so let us know (I’m a bit too invested I think!)