So Many Hot Tubs
Found On: Honolulu Craigslist By: Anonymous
Aloha. Please take this Jacuzzi….if you want something to hold your fish….or use in a garden for water catchment. You will need a truck…and a few guys.
Hot tubs are awesome. There is no reason in the world to get rid of something as super-desirable as a hot tub. Dammit, I love hot tubs. I love that hot tub. I love this hot tub:
I dig this hot tub:
And even this hot tub:
So why do so many people want to get rid of their hot tubs?
Well, I can think of a couple reasons.
A. It is broken beyond repair. Owning a hot tub that is broken beyond repair is a lot like having a car on blocks in your back yard. I can see wanting to get rid of that. I suspect the thinking goes like this: “Hey, I have this enormous useless device in the backyard. It’s not as cool as the Edsel we turned into a doghouse, and it’s really impeding my croquet training. Let’s get rid of it.”
B. The hot tub has been sitting in the back yard for 8-15 years, and after all that indulgence – the wine, the slap-and-tickle, the toe incident with the super-hot neighbor – the idea of going back into it ever again is nauseating. It’s a heated swamp, swimming with memories of your ethical shortcomings – not to mention the bacteria that have made themselves at home and evolved there. I understand: you just . . . can’t . . . even . . . look at it anymore.
So it’s either broken, depressing, septic, or all of the above. You call the hauling company – “$300? Just to take it away? Let me see if I can find some sucker on craigslist to take it.”
The curious part is whether anyone has ever made a serious call to collect one of these. “OK, it doesn’t work, it smells like a sewage treatment plant, and it will take a rented truck and four hired hands to move it? I’ll be right over.”
It’s a hot tub full of Ecto-Cooler!
hmmm…. s’lime jello anyone? didnt think so. it could make a LOVELY planter.
Now THIS is a deal:
http://austin.craigslist.org/zip/1317845456.html
I’ve been looking for a place to relax.
“the slap-and-tickle” and “memories of ethical shortcomings” had me LOLing so hard!!!!
This is my favorite post of all!!!!
The last one looks like some fancy space-age moonshine still
Well, to the credit of the OP, the ad includes no encouragement this thing could become a hot tub again. Its purported usefulness has been appropriately downgraded to water catchment or a fish pond. For fish with low self-esteem. That you hate. For the raccoons to terrorize.
Those would have to be some X-treme fish! Blasting around the tub powered by the jets! You could put on your own fishy XGames!
I was thinking it looked like Ecto-Cooler too! I think everything green looks like Ecto-Cooler.
God, I miss Ecto-Cooler….
Dude, if that’s a tub full of Absynthe it’s totally worth it.
@ Malisyn: Totally, but it would burst into flames! ha ha
I think if they marketed this as a ‘groovy futuristic coi pond’ they might get some calls. Or not. I’m not a marketing professional.
Do I get to take the Urine too?
This wasn’t a hot tub it was there only bathroom.
Check out what these guys did with their old Jacuzzi!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2gCwsl1mKA
I think I need therapy now, after imagining how long that water had to have been in there to turn that color. Or even worse, what was left in it to turn it that color. Even worse: what was left in there for that long to turn it that color?
@K
Ecto Cooler! That’s exactly what I thought when I saw it!!!
Slimer melted in the hot tub..