Monday 26 March 2012

And the winner is...

Everyone likes to win a competition, whether it be publicly on the radio or tv or privately from the newspaper or internet, everyone likes to win something. Even I had the pleasure of winning a competition once. I won satellite television all paid for, for a year and a trip to Rome. In my stupidity I completely forgot about the trip to Rome and didn’t take it. That isn’t one of my finest hours but hey ho, you live and learn.

Now even if I do say so myself, when the phone call came through from the people to tell me I had won, I was very calm. I was at work I thanked them very much, gave them my details and then awaited further instructions as to how the prizes would be collected/delivered etc. There was no histrionics, no jumping up and down, no crying, no waving my hand in front of my mouth as the tears built up. I just told the people at work, they congratulated me and when I got home told my family who were chuffed to bits that they weren’t going to have to pay for their satellite for a year (mainly my dad). This brings me on to my topic of the day, why the hell people react so hysterically when they win, what are sometimes, such shit prizes really.

It is the worst on the radio. Don’t get me wrong there are some humdingers of prizes that are won, that I would be stoked to have won, but some of the reactions really! ‘Congratulations you have won a pencil case with a picture of your favourite boy bad!!’ Cue screaming down the phone, thanking the DJ over and over again followed by more screaming and ‘I can’t believe it, I just can’t believe it, thank you so much.’ Ending in tears down the phone. There is no need for it. Some people ring up, win, say thanks and off they go. That is all that is needed. For some saddo’s it seems that getting 2 tickets to see Lady Gaga (face value of about a combined $200 max), is as big a deal if not bigger than if they won the lottery. I don’t see how they could be more excited if they actually won a life changing sum of money.

On the tv it isn’t so bad, mainly because you actually do tend to win life changing sums of money if you are lucky enough to win. That being said there are the odd show where you win complete crap. Yes maybe it is the excitement of being on tv and actually winning and not making a complete tit of yourself that adds to the reactions, but winning a plastic dining set is not on the same par as taking home a brand new car or a million pounds, although you would be forgiven for thinking that it is. I know that it’s great to see someone so excited. Everyone likes to see a happy person, I am not saying don’t be happy, I am saying that lets calm it down people. I like listening to the radio in the car, I hate hearing a shmock scream down their phone because they won a tissue that Justin Bieber sneezed in.

I am all for competitions. Let’s get more of them I say. That means more chance for me to win if I enter a few (I’m about 0 for 100 this year). I just want there to be a clause that if you over react and annoy the host or the host thinks that you may be offending the public’s ears and/or eyes then you forfeit your prize. How good would that be! You would see a complete range of emotions. From going nuts over the top crazy at winning a pencil sharpener that you have always dreamt of to having it snatched from your grasp by your own stupidity, let’s be having that, that is entertaining!!!! That is the thought for today, tune in tomorrow for something else. Laters

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