A couple of years ago, Nokia (back when they were their own company) ran a little contest on their Facebook page in which you could win a Lumia 920 (their then

A couple of years ago, Nokia (back when they were their own company) ran a little contest on their Facebook page in which you could win a Lumia 920 (their then flagship phone). To enter, you had to answer a question along the lines of "Why do you want to win this phone?". Instead of writing some sob story like many others no doubt did, my genius idea was to write a poem about why I should win it. It was a fun poem - rhymed and everything - and took me about half an hour to write. I thought there was a chance that Nokia don't even bother reading the entries and just randomly choose the winner, but I also thought that if they did actually read the entries, I'd surely stand out. A few weeks later I checked my email and there it was - I'd won the phone. It felt amazing that my plan had actually worked, and I used the phone for about 3 years before it started to give way.