Heavy cardboard tube
Found by: Dana on Reno Craigslist
Heavy cardboard tube, around 5′ long. Goes in trash this week if not taken. Please email with day and time you can pick up and I will respond accordingly. Unfortunately, I cannot hold items. Thanks for looking.
I know, you’re thinking “really? Someone took the time to photograph this, load the picture to their computer, and post it? It’s a cardboard tube.” Well, I for one, am delighted they did.
My 7-year-old brother and I have been having swordfights with the same cardboard tubes since Christmas. You know, the ones from gift wrapping paper. So by now, they’re pretty spent – we’re basically just hitting each other with paper noodles. I think I need to re-arm, and I think this is just the tube to do it. I know Mom’s going to tell me she isn’t going to get in the car and drive to Reno just to pick up a piece of cardboard, but I can be pretty insistent.
My brother’s gonna be bummed when he sees me walk into the backyard with this:
“No fair! Mooom!!”
“Mom can’t help you now, Timmy.”
I would love to show up to pick this up and say something like, “Wow! I’ve been looking all over for one of these. Do you know how hard they are to find? I’ve been looking all over the internet for years trying to find a cardboard tube, and now, after driving five hours one way, I finally have one! I can’t believe my luck!”
I love the line “Unfortunately, I cannot hold items”. Which implies that she thinks there’s going to be a plethora of responders for this piece of trash.
And “items”? I would love to see what else she has. Perhaps an empty box of Quaker Oats. Or maybe the plastic bin from the kitty litter. Personally, I’m looking for the cellophane from a newly purchased CD, especially if she has one that was removed in one piece. Bonus!
Well hey….there’s no reason to subject Timmy to an unfair combative situation. There’re plenty of lumber scraps with nails sticking out of them available off Craigslist.
“Unfortunately, I cannot hold items. ” That makes me so sad. Maybe her hands were mangled in a horrible present-wrapping incident. Or she’s just very weak, which would explain why even a cardboard tube seems heavy to her. I *am* curious as to what she means by, “I will respond accordingly”. Maybe she’ll joyously clap her flipper-like ‘hands’ together.
i’d like to show up in a huge truck with a bunch of burly type guys, to pick this up.
I would like to show up, act really thankful for the awesome cardboard tube then throw it away in her own trash can and leave.
ooooh my compulsive hoarder mom would be all over this! she flipped out once when i threw out a cardboard mailing tube she was saving…
@beegee
Good thinking! It’s *heavy* after all.
My bunny likes these..but you can buy them at the hardware store for cheap.
@Kanil
must be a problem with the gravitational force around the tube…
Well damn, I drove on Mt Rose hwy just a few days ago and I only live about 15 minutes from the seller…
To bad I’m not in the market for garbage.
hahahahaaaa sword fights…i used to do that with my brother and one time i broke the tube across the side of his head…ahh the memories…maybe i should snag this beauty and challenge him to a duel!
I totally have several of these of varying sizes. Good, heavy ones from bolts of fabric. I don’t know what the hell I’m going to do them, but damn if I don’t figure something out.
One of these and a huge cardboard box that a washer or dryer comes in and any kid will have more fun with than any expensive toy you can buy.
Hey, if you’re a Penny Arcade fan, you could dress up as the cardboard tube samurai for Halloween.
Django-
Call an elementary school and see if they want them. My daughter’s class made rainsticks and Didgeridoos out of them one year. I had some business down the street from me that frequently put those out with the trash… I managed to snag enough for every student. They really enjoyed them.
@Hesster
Or go join the Cardboard Tube Fighting League
@Django.Iscariot
Give ‘em away on craigslist.
I can imagine wrapping a David Hasselhoff Poster on that…