Suspicious Package

17 Mar 2004 By

I just grabbed today’s mail out of the mailbox. My roommate has a padded envelope from his parents that is vibrating loudly. The item inside appears to be cylindrical and about 6 inches long.

I’m kind of surprised it even got delivered. I’m sure many postal workers were amused. Then again, maybe they see this kind of shit all the time.

UPDATE: It was his “electric toothbrush” which he left at home.

  • http://www.davetepper.net Dave

    Um?

    His parents sent him a…? No. No. It would be more than 6″ long in that case, wouldn’t it?

    His parents?

    His parents? I mean, you’re sure he’s not pulling a Teena Brandon on everyone, right?

  • http://www.mysocalledblog.com Lachlan

    Suspicious package indeed!

    I’m not sure which is more mindboggling; the senders’ identity or the fact that it got delivered at all!!

  • http://www.swirlspice.com Erica

    Further groping of the package reveals that the very end of it is skinny and pretty solid, so I’m wondering if it’s some sort of tool like a little cordless screwdriver or something.

    Still, I think I will be making every effort to be home and awake when he gets home. For the time being I have to leave the room because that buzzing is loud as hell and it’s getting really fucking annoying.

  • http://www.danielphillip.com daniel

    Ooh! Don’t ya love a good mystery? Especially with the housemates…

  • http://www.davetepper.net Dave

    He… you know… with an electric toothbrush?!

    Oh.

    OH!!!!

    Uh… never mind then.

  • http://www.dustbury.com/ CGHill

    Either mail delivery is much faster up there, or there are electric toothbrushes with a hell of a lot longer battery life than I get with my Sonicare. :)

  • http://www.dawnpennington.com dawn

    A friend of mine just got a suspicious package with green tape on it. They called the cops, and it had eight blue diamond-shaped pills, with no note, no container, nothin’. Weird.

  • http://people.albion.edu/krc10/ krista.

    Realistically, if it was an electric toothbrush, the batteries wouldn’t need to have a long-ass life, as the thing could’ve just been turned on at some late point in its journey.

    And yes, I am well aware of my ability to suck the fun out of everything. ;)

  • http://www.swirlspice.com Erica

    He did say he’s had it randomly turn itself on in airports and had to dig it out and show it to security.

  • http://www.highlymoody.com mel

    electric toothbrush. suuuure.

  • http://people.albion.edu/krc10/ krista.

    See, that’s why we take the batteries out of things when we travel. Of course, for all the anal-retentiveness that airports claim about security and what-not, they’re totally lying about it. They don’t even check your ID at the gate, which strikes me as odd. Airports in Europe make a much better attempt at the whole security thing. Then again, they’ve always been more efficient than us in a lot of Europe.