I have a predilection for these 'mystery prize' type of cons. As a kid, my best friend and I used to waste £2 a go on Claires Accesories' lucky bags, then fall out over who got the only half-decent adornment that fell out of the mountain of assorted shite. Another time, at Download Festival in '09, I was enticed by the offer of a '3 items for £1' lucky dip on a hippy stall which left me with more emo jewellery than Afflecks Palace.
The Works little "What will you discover?" scheme sucked me in straight away. You'd have thought I would've learnt by now that "goody bag" is a retail synonym for "unsellable shite". I toyed with the idea of buying the male interest bag, but sensibly I reasoned it'd be full of books on cars and football, neither of which interest me in the least. So female interest it was, and as I am in fact, a female, how could this go wrong?
How indeed.
What you see before you are the following titles:
Robbie & Gary: It's Complicated - The Unauthorized Biography by Paul Scott
Get on the Ball: Total Body Workout by Lisa Westlake
and my personal favourite:
The Beck Diet Solution: Train Your Brain to Think Like a Thin Person by Judith S. Beck
I am a woman, so therefore clearly I am on a diet, need some easy exercise plans and love Take That. Otherwise what kind of woman would I be?! What else could 'general female interest' allude to, other than diet, fitness and popstars? Cheers, The Works. To be honest, as these bags have been put together by The Works staff, who between them have the IQ of a chewed scotch egg, I'm lucky not to have got a pop-up ABC book and 2011 diary.
Can you see that small print on the first picture? It says: "Items exempt from our usual refund policy." Ah, mystery bags, you win again.
