Unwanted Winnings

Have you ever won something that you didn't really want to win but did?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
One nine hot Tomato. It's Moira and Big Trev and
it's when we yay, hey, welcome to win week. Guys. Ah, yeah,
we have had We've got no prizes for you to win.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (00:12):
No, no, it's just a normal one. It's not like
you get to win. We're asking you for win stories.

Speaker 3 (00:17):
We only talk about nothing but winning. That's all we're
talking about. There's nothing to win here, okay, but we
want to know about your unwanted wins. Okay, it's something
that you won. My mom won a two short two stroke, lawmar.
We have no lawn back and it's just dir dirt home.
And look at Alma, what do we what are we

(00:38):
mowing the dog?

Speaker 1 (00:39):
I don't know what we're doing.

Speaker 4 (00:41):
We won a smoker, considering that we have five smokers. Yes,
it was a well needed win for the home. This smoker, though,
had Wi Fi and everything. It was amazing. It is
amazing Wi Fi like you connected, so you can control
the heat and everything else and all that kind of

(01:02):
stuff through through it, like Bluetooth and all that kind
of it's very cool.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
Goes with the other seven that we have. And you
didn't downsize the other one. No, I no, We've still
got old bird birth throughout the back there. She's rusted
out and she's all right. She's great as a clothesline too.

Speaker 3 (01:18):
We're on the list of smokers doesn't come in.

Speaker 1 (01:22):
Well, we did get a new smoker last week as well.
What how many now total? What doing? Well? We got
given a Weber so it's a new edition. Do you
use the Wi Fi want?

Speaker 4 (01:40):
There's so many others that you have to make feelers though, Well,
there is a demeter that we got for there was.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
The Christmas one was like that's a really good.

Speaker 3 (01:47):
Like, okay, we want to know about your unwanted wins?
Were you on a great call from Phil from he
had an unwonted win?

Speaker 2 (01:57):
Well, it's a bit of a funny one, this one.
Do you want to fish? But wasn't just an ordinary fish?
I agree? About forty odd years ago, I left home
for the first time, living in a caravan away from
home and went drove about an hour back towards home
to watch the local footy team play and came to
the pub afterwards and bought a chicken in a fish wrapper. Yeah,

(02:20):
and I was I want to claim it. And it
was about a twenty five to thirty kilo Jewfish? What
living in a caravan?

Speaker 1 (02:29):
What?

Speaker 2 (02:29):
What was I going to? What was I trying to
do with it? My cousin was there and I said,
you want to take it? So he took it and
put it in a freezer for a week, and then
they used it as a honey for my cousin's wife's
twenty first.

Speaker 4 (02:45):
Oh my god, that's twenty five to thirty kilos.

Speaker 2 (02:51):
Oh yeah, only just fitted in the back of their car.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
I sit. It's a great story for Windwig and also
for fish Wak.

Speaker 4 (02:59):
Yeah, winding the weeks together, Phil, All right.

Speaker 1 (03:07):
Let's go. What did your win that you didn't really
want to win.

Speaker 2 (03:10):
Before Hot Tomato existed on the radio station that you
and Gaily used to work for. I won three three holidays.

Speaker 3 (03:19):
In one year.

Speaker 1 (03:20):
Good holidays? Where did you go?

Speaker 3 (03:28):
Well?

Speaker 2 (03:29):
The first one was for day Dream Island for a
week or two, which.

Speaker 4 (03:32):
I took by myself because I could not get.

Speaker 2 (03:34):
Any takers to come with me.

Speaker 1 (03:36):
You didn't know I was there, Yeah, second one was
the Canes for a week, which I didn't end up
taking because.

Speaker 2 (03:44):
I had a argument with the people who were booking it.

Speaker 3 (03:48):
Somebody told me I could go to Sydney and stay.
When I tried to.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
Look as you know, he told you that, and I thought,
I bug of that. I've already been in cans and
I need to spend another week there. And the.

Speaker 3 (04:01):
Last one was the Great Kettle.

Speaker 2 (04:03):
Ireland, which again I'd only been there a few years before,
and it was for a week or two. I didn't
have any annually available, so I gave it to the Salvos,
and they gave it to a lovely couple who needed
a honeymoon.

Speaker 1 (04:15):
That's how nice you have to say, she is. Why
are you entering all the competitions to the places you
didn't want to go to? Yeah, while were you doing?

Speaker 4 (04:22):
You'd already gone to care and you already got But
I'm glad that you got three from that bunch.

Speaker 3 (04:30):
They would nameless you were.

Speaker 1 (04:34):
And time with Moira and