Have you ever won anything?

njee20

northernneil wrote:

njee20 wrote:

I won 'The Weakest Link' on BBC1, it was televised last night actually!

Nick, 23 from Guilford, transport planner

Yep, that be me! I'm a lot less serious in real life mind...

Heckler1974

I won a competiton in the Radio Times to go and see Empire Strikes Back being made at Elstree (along with all the Star Wars figures and a cardboard Death Star). Was very ill at the time with pneumonia and hooping cough so my memory is a little hazy but I do remember having a coughing fit during lunch, my dad taking me to the loo and mid-retch glancing round to see Harrison Ford and Mark Hamill glancing over my dad's shoulder asking "is the little guy okay?"

hopper1

I won £100 Argos gift voucher in the hristmas raffle - Spent £40 on tickets!
I won £50 of M&S vouchers for entering the best safety card of the month - Still have them!

teagar

Have coxed a few boats to victory.

mercsport

I had to scratch my head here, but I did dredge up that several ages ago I won a motorcycle sprint on the prom' at Blackpool. Even a mention in MCN that week. What glory!



Nearer to modern times, I got shafted by an online company in the States over a camera I'd bought off them. They sent me the wrong model and mysteriously gave up answering my emails about me returning it. Ultimately, months later, the bank coughed up the £900 I'd paid with my CC, and I still got to keep the camera. Which, I suppose, is a 'win' of some kind.

Anonymous

I won a pair if knee high tubeless basketball socks at a schoold disco when I was 10 for dancing the best to Madness.

I recently won 2 tickets for any Cineworld cinema, terms and conditions apply.

Oh and we won £110,120 on the lottery in 1995. We were and still are very happy.

LardLover

Just won £25 to spend at Always Riding, which is nice.

simple_salmon

Various (running) races and leagues over the years but nothing beats the Corby Trouser Press I won for 7th place in Race the Train one year.

Since I own no pairs of trousers that have ever needed pressing I now wish I'd slowed down and got 8th prize instead

Did sell it for £50 though.

hugo15

Got 5 balls on the lottery a few months ago, winning £1250. Off to the LBS tomorrow to have a chat about upgrading to Campag Chorus 11 speed.

Once won a camera for sending in a picture of our cat.

When I was a kid my dad won a competition for me to play football with Kevin Keegan. It was back in the early 80's when he was at Newcastle. What a brilliant day out that was.

Anonymous

Does your dad winning anything count ?

If so, my Dad was Masonic Scottish Darts Champion in 1974.

Ands

dmclite wrote:

Does your dad winning anything count ?

If so, my Dad was Masonic Scottish Darts Champion in 1974.

That's really clutching at straws :roll: . But now you mention it, my dad was Essex billiards champion many moons ago .

I was awarded 2 grandstand seats + hotel for a weekend at the Silverstone grand prix. Had to work damm hard for it tho as it was a work-related 'prize'. My boss knew I liked GP so selected the prize for me.

DIESELDOG

I won the conker competition at my local a few years ago, beat a premiership footballer to the title, he was less than impressed.

larmurf

Ands wrote:

Ever won anything, or been gifted anything unexpectedly?

Yea - Divorce Papers!

Lycra Man

I won £300 worth of bike/parts in a free draw to promote Aylesbury as a cycling town. As I already had a bike of my own, my wife got a Giant, and 2 x helmets and gloves for her and the daughter.

Oh, and I won 'Premier Etranger' in the Montignac Half Marathon. That's First Foreigner. And I was the only one!

Still have the trophy (its ghastly) Why I stood around to watch the awards ceremony, I'll never know. I couldn't believe it when they called out my name

Lycra Man

Pokerface

TakeTheHighRoad wrote:

I'm gona get mine in on before Pokerface trumps us all.

Seems someone won more than me in the lottery so I can't trump everyone.


Won £73,500 on a gameshow a few years back. What show you ask? See my username. 8)


And it's all gone - but it was a hell of a ride!

bexley5200

won 2 tickets to new york on virgin atlantic,from a draw in a running race in the mid 80s had a fantastic time

pneumatic

Progress Prize (first year at Primary School) Clearly a mistake, as that was it for 7 years!
Latin and Maths Prizes (first year at Secondary School) Another mistake. I dropped both subjects.
African Violet (Village Hall Raffle) it died of neglect
Umbrella (charity do)
Another Umbrella (another charity do)
200 Euros in the Casino in Chamonix paid my bar bill for the week
Free haircut (Kids School Raffle) really embarrassed my offspring with the acceptance speech!

and you wonder why I don't do the lottery!

In competitve sports, my usual position is either second or second last.

ColinJ

As a teenager I went with my dad when he was checking out the cars in a local showroom. They had a competition to guess how many tennis balls they had got into the boot of a car. I worked it out instead of guessing. I think I was only about 5 or 6 balls out and about 50 closer than the next best entry. We won lots of little bits and pieces. Travel rug, picnic hamper, thermos flasks, cool box, etc. etc.

Later in life I won a pair of cycling glasses from Cycling Weekly, some software from Computer Shopper, and the best prize of all was a synthesiser work station from Sound on Sound magazine (worth about £1,800 at the time).

Oh, and £50 prizes in 3 consecutive premium bond draws.

Captain Fagor

Two return flights to Australia, courtesy of Quantas, the Mail on Sunday's "Night and Day" supplement and a local radio station, Gemini FM.

Back in 1997, I went to the Walkabout Bar in Exeter with a mate from Sunderland. He wanted to see Newcastle get stuffed by Stevenage Borough in an FA Cup replay. We watched the game (Newcastle won) and when work colleagues arrived we stayed on in the pub for what was already a fairly serious Sunday afternoon bevvy session.

There was a "answer a few questions on Oz, and put your name in a hat" draw (which I later learnt had been running in the aforementioned rag supplement and also via the local radio), and we all entered. But you had to be there on the night to collect your prize, which meant staying on until 10pm. Two people "won" before me, but weren't there to collect their prize. I was absolutely hammered when they called out my name, and can barely remember getting photographed with some scantily clad eye Oz candy on each arm.

I gave one of the two flights to the bloke from Sunderland, and we watched the Arsenal vs Newcastle final in a bar in Oz. The thing I'd like to see is the press photos of me (after 7+ hours of heavy drinking) and the swimsuit babes!

Ieuanllan

I won a bottle of Czech absinthe in work's christmas raffle.
The party got messy after that...

ademort

Won our local U16 schoolboy 10 Mile TT. Most embarrasing thing i won at school was the third prize in the annual chritmas cake making competition and having to go up in front of the whole school at assembly to collect my prize, a book voucher worth 50p, Effin hell was i embarrased.I also won best Bugler award when in the Sea cadet corps.Won a few football league titlea in lower league footy, nowt to write home about really.
Ademort

Splottboy

Won Giant comp, 08. Prizes were:
Giant TCR 2, Ultegra, 4 days for 2 at TDF, all expenses paid.
Giant t-shirts and Polos, jackets etc. Giant Ltd Edition watches.
Had 2 full sets of Columbia kit, plus Columbia top signed by the team. Framed now!!!

Also won Columbia polo shirt, Gatorade for 3 months, 6 bottles and a towel.
AND... Giant huge rucksack

Years ago won a clock, a toy car from the Sun, tickets for Pantos and book tokens for art in school, photo in S.Wales Echo with Stan Stennet, before he was in Corrie!

Placed in various Martial Arts comps, so got some nice trophies too.

cjw

Not lottery prizes, but when I was much younger (16) was British Champion in field archery (GNAS and FITA) for a couple of years on the trot and 3rd in Europe... represented British Team. So won a few gold medals.

RichN95.

Hockey: Welsh Cup, Welsh 2nd XI Cup, BUSA Championship, various leagues.

Athletics: County champion U15, U17 x 2 (Berkshire) for sprint hurdles. 100m, 200m, Hurdles, and High Jump at school. Various relays medals.

At Uni I used to enter competitions in magazines and won quite a lot - nothing huge though.

Lots of pub quizzes (my real talent)

tri-sexual

Ands wrote:

dmclite wrote:

Does your dad winning anything count ?

If so, my Dad was Masonic Scottish Darts Champion in 1974.

That's really clutching at straws :roll: . But now you mention it, my dad was Essex billiards champion many moons ago .

I was awarded 2 grandstand seats + hotel for a weekend at the Silverstone grand prix. Had to work damm hard for it tho as it was a work-related 'prize'. My boss knew I liked GP so selected the prize for me.

my dad's ex wife's sister had a daughter that won a turkey at a christmas raffle once, she's vegetarian
does that count?

tlw1

bar the football stuff as a kid & a computer once, my fav is the following:

when I was a student I used to play the lottery & won 3/4 numbers a few times. The best time was when my brother came down to go cycling, asked if he wanted to bet on the National & he said betting is a mugs game.

We went for a ride & stopped in a pub to watch the National, I won the jackpot on the fruit machine, my horse came in on the national & bought a lottery on the way home and got four numbers! He was pig sick!

redvee

Thought I'd got 4 numbers on last weekends lottery Then I looked again at the website and had the time period set for the last 6 months I did argue the toss when Euromillions started to get bundled with the raffle thing, said to the shop owner I only asked for the Euromillions ticket and not the raffle, when checking the numbers later they came good to the tune of £39

1892

I won two tickets to the British Superbikes last year @ Cadwell, full hospitality with Airwaves team, it was great.

ademort

What about a thread for what you might have won.Can i start,
On my one and only visit to a horse racing day at Haydock Park i went with a group of workmates who were sure were going to win bigtime with the bookies. On going into Haydock Park we bumped into some cracking looking birds so Ademort got talking to them, had a drink and was given the winners of the first four races, these girls seemed to know their stuff, i went back to my mates and said here if we put 20 quid on these four we can win 1500 quid according to the girls. I must add at this point that i have no idea about horse racing. My mates all laughed and said you can better keep your money they are all donkeys that you want to back. Ok, so i went and bet with my mates, we won naff all and sure enough the four horses that the girls gave me all won. My mates calculated that we would have won nearly 1800 quid and not 1500 quid as stated.

zippypablo

won a trip to EuroDisney, £250 in lottery plus the odd £10. On a sporting note once won the "Cleveland Navigator" overnight hiking event. That's about it.