View Full Version : Be careful who you send care packages to . . .
Jester2000
10-20-2009, 12:19
So I have this habit of mailing care packages to hikers I know who are on long distance trails. And yeah, sure, I put things in there that they might actually want or need, but I also tend to put other things in the packages. Things like inflatable limbo sticks. And beer helmets. And hats shaped like alligator heads.
Over the summer I sent a package to our friend RiffRaff on the PCT, and he sent a care package in return. I'm cleaning out my office, and before I throw this stuff out I thought I'd catalog it.
1 bag full of dead flies
1 bag of dirt
1 Gatorade bottle of water from a stream (unfiltered)
1 bag of sticks, moss, and small pine cones
1 bag of horse crap
1 large pine cone
I'm keeping the pine cone.
Jonnycat
10-20-2009, 12:22
Put all that stuff on your desk and don't shower for a week.
Instant trail!
RedneckRye
10-20-2009, 14:50
Not sure what is funnier....
Contents of the box
or the fact that Jester has an office.
Jester2000
10-20-2009, 15:38
Not sure what is funnier....
Contents of the box
or the fact that Jester has an office.
. . . or the fact that I'm cleaning it.
So I have this habit of mailing care packages to hikers I know who are on long distance trails. And yeah, sure, I put things in there that they might actually want or need, but I also tend to put other things in the packages. Things like inflatable limbo sticks. And beer helmets. And hats shaped like alligator heads.
Over the summer I sent a package to our friend RiffRaff on the PCT, and he sent a care package in return. I'm cleaning out my office, and before I throw this stuff out I thought I'd catalog it.
1 bag full of dead flies
1 bag of dirt
1 Gatorade bottle of water from a stream (unfiltered)
1 bag of sticks, moss, and small pine cones
1 bag of horse crap
1 large pine cone
I'm keeping the pine cone.
That is a great care package.
Roll around in the everything but the water, then filter the water. Go out and sit in your yard and have a drink, you will smell and feel like you have been on the trail for weeks. The next best thing to hiking is having the trail right there in your back yard.
Enjoy
was just trying to remind you of the trail. Hope none of it smelled up the office to bad.
was just trying to remind you of the trail. Hope none of it smelled up the office to bad.
Are you kidding? I'm sure people were thanking him for the improvement.
Sleepy the Arab
10-22-2009, 23:46
Not sure what is funnier....
Contents of the box
or the fact that Jester has an office.
I thought he misspelled "orifice."
nitewalker
10-23-2009, 08:18
my sister sent my brother some dog vomit for christmas one year. now that was funny....it was from her 130lb doberman. he was the biggest doberman ever!!
ShoelessWanderer
10-23-2009, 11:08
Over the summer I sent a package to our friend RiffRaff on the PCT, and he sent a care package in return. I'm cleaning out my office, and before I throw this stuff out I thought I'd catalog it.
1 bag full of dead flies
1 bag of dirt
1 Gatorade bottle of water from a stream (unfiltered)
1 bag of sticks, moss, and small pine cones
1 bag of horse crap
1 large pine cone
So, I've only meet RiffRaff once, but...from what I've heard...are you really surprised by these contents???
Pacific Tortuga
10-23-2009, 11:20
I've wanted to send you something for some time now but cannot PM you Jester, your box is full. Address ?
Jim Adams
10-23-2009, 21:05
I sent a "care package" to a hostel for friends on the trail and in large block letters listed the return address as Ted's House of Gay Asian Porn....no one would claim it!
geek
So, I've only meet RiffRaff once, but...from what I've heard...are you really surprised by these contents???
Not sure if this is a complement or in insult?
Chris Vreeland
10-25-2009, 21:44
Thank you ladies and gentlemen. Some 20 years removed from completing the AT, your posts made me laugh until I cried. My wife and son are in the other room wondering what I am up to now.
In 1988 my hiking buddy and I were engaged in an ongoing "care box war" with some buddies hiking the PCT. The best one was at the Pearisburg PO where we stopped to collect our mail. The dialogue went something like this:
John "The Sheik" Sullivan to the postal employee: "Got any mail for John Sullivan?"
Employee: "Nope but I have some for Fat John Sullivan. (to his buddy in the back and handing John the box addressed to Fat John Sullivan) Hey, Ralph - come out here. Fat John's here."
Ralph: (sticking his head around the corner, looking at us): Well, he ain't so fat."
We returned the favor, sending the barbie doll back out west, although I cannot remember how we addressed the box (although it probably had a reference to sheep).
Trailweaver
10-26-2009, 00:19
This is too much. . . I never thought of sending stuff like that to a hiker. Maybe I need to re-think what goes in the next box I send out. Don't think I would go so far as to address something from a gay porn house though. . . the feds might take an interest in it. ; - )
Monkeyboy
11-02-2009, 19:15
. . . or the fact that I'm cleaning it.
I thought the Port-a-Potty people came by once a week to take care of that for you....
:D
Jester2000
11-02-2009, 19:17
I thought the Port-a-Potty people came by once a week to take care of that for you....
:D
Haha! They stopped -- they said it was too filthy.
Monkeyboy
11-02-2009, 19:19
It's because you kept flushing the sanitary napkins.......clogs up their hoses, dontcha know.
Now there is something I could have sent