MShipley88 wrote:OK....I have a story to beat all the others here........Back in June we ordered a book via Abebooks for my son to read for next school year. The seller was a used book store in, like, Maine.So, roughly two weeks after the book was mailed, I picked it up here in Washington. The package was very well sealed...an envelope taped shut with packing tape.Since most of the packages full of books that arrive at my house are for me...well...I assumed that it was for me. (Also, my son and I have the same name.)I was too curious, so I opened up the top of the package while I was driving along in the car.UNDER the packing tape, outside of the envelope, but well sealed under the front flap was....a colony of ants! We're not talking a couple ants...we're talking several hundred little black ants...complete with eggs and larvae!Well, the ants started scrambling about everywhere, trying to save their young. They ran all over the envelope, all over the car seat and all over me...each one gripping a larva or an egg. I'm thinking, "Well, ants won't hurt me, but I'll be damned if I'm gonna let these little dudes found a new colony in my car!"So, I rolled down the window and drove home with the manilla envelope held out the window in my left hand....letting the tiny black stowaways scatter in the wind. I had to hold the package way out the window so the little dudes wouldn't blow back into the car...or into my eyes and mouth. I actually felt kinda bad about it...they made it so far!I was just happy my wife hadn't opened the envelope. Any sort of insect makes her freak out...and several hundred larvae-toting black ants would have probably made her crash the car. Then again, she wouldn't have opened a package in the car while driving.The book inside was completely untouched. The ants must have been in there for at least two weeks. We had a good laugh and then we contacted the seller and told him about the extra passengers.He said there was no charge for the ants, and that we could keep them.Mark
MShipley88 wrote:Well, the ants started scrambling about everywhere, trying to save their young. They ran all over the envelope, all over the car seat and all over me...each one gripping a larva or an egg. I'm thinking, "Well, ants won't hurt me, but I'll be damned if I'm gonna let these little dudes found a new colony in my car!"
MShipley88 wrote:UNDER the packing tape, outside of the envelope, but well sealed under the front flap was....a colony of ants! We're not talking a couple ants...we're talking several hundred little black ants...complete with eggs and larvae!
VermilionFire wrote:Wow, was there still grease in it? That's just pitiful...
MShipley88 wrote:It must have happened in transit. WHo would deliberately handle and ship a cat pissed box?Mike...PM me with the name! Please!Mark
Marlith wrote:I would bet the cat went on the box long before it was used. The urine had probably dried up and they did not even notice the odor since they have cats. If you have cats you get used to litterbox odor nd might not notice if they sprayed...and if they spray regularly and you haven't gotten rid of them you would never notice.
Beyondthebreach wrote:I have four cats (and three litterboxes in the basement!). I don't even bother to keep cardboard downstairs - if it's gotta be stored there, it goes in a plastic bag inside a tote. (no books are paper items no matter what). All my packing material stays in the garage . . . or strewn about the office floor . . .
Badmike wrote:Received a package from a TOP figure in the RPG industry, who will remain nameless here (no it's not Frank Mentzer!!!!). At some point in the journey, or perhaps before the journey, the box used to ship the items in had aquired a certain odor....which became more and more identifiable as the day went on (after it had arrived at my house and been unpacked) . It was cat piss, and it got stronger and stronger as the day went on . Examination of the box showed heavy stains up one side and down the other! A friend of mine who was with me suggested that perhaps the Top Industry Figure had whizzed on the box before mailing it to either show displeasure with my bids, or to "mark his territory" so to speak. My friend and I proceeded to giggle for many days over the image of said Top Industry Figure dropping trou and letting fly all over the box...but I'm still pretty sure it was cat piss and not human urine covering the shipping box. And no, I didn't save the box to perhaps sell on ebay someday (Top Industry Figure's Cat Pissed Box would have been the title of the auction I suppose), nor was the urine stain in the shape of a religious icon, etc. And luckily the stench/urine had not gotten through the packing material to mess up the items....Mike B.,\
Beyondthebreach wrote:All I can say is: You should have kept the box! You may have been able to action it off to someone from the acaeum for $20!
Plaag wrote:I'm waiting for a giant beer can to crush him..ShaneG.
bclarkie wrote:Well, I think I laughed for a good 15 minutes straight when I got the name on this one, Taking the name in conjunction with the idea that this person was mad at you for your bids instantly put a hillarious image in my head. I can see it now, "Hmm want to bid on my stuff huh? F*ck this guy, lets see if he ever bids on my stuff again", followed by a slight water dripping on paper sound.
