The other day, I entered contests on Flavorpill as I do every week. Mostly because their contests are the only thing I can (occasionally) win. I was pleasantly surprised to win again -- this time an autographed poster from Tortoise -- but found that there was a catch: I actually had to go to the show to retrieve it and I was without a ticket. I weighed the good show + new poster - $18 vs. more money for train fare and galivanting, and the wanderings won out. So, I lost my prize. Wackness.
Then yesterday, I was googling people for some reason or another (don't ask, I don't really know myself) when I decided to google myself. And I found that I had won a contest at Prefix a few months back. That was some news to me. I emailed them to say: "Hi there. I won? Did I win a prize too? Because I never got it." The response was: "yeah, we sent it to you forever ago. Is this your address?" And it was. I'm thinking due to lack of a current response, their stance is: "Sounds like a person problem to us."
Sheesh. A kid could start to take this shit personally.
