Seriously?!?
I came home yesterday to find these two animals (dolphin & turtle) in our driveway. Delivered by semi-truck and left without anyone signing to accept them. At first I assumed they were left at the wrong house. When I read the packing slip they kindly left in our mailbox it had our name/address and pointed out that the freight weighed 690 lbs. Then, I thought maybe it was a prank. But who? Last on my list would have been Nate’s family. In fact, my family would have been numbers 1-99.
Nate solved the mystery when he remembered a conversation from Thanksgiving. Seems Nate’s step-brother (who owns a rubber business & makes products for playgrounds) felt it necessary to send us 2 huge animals for our small backyard.
There are SO many issues with this:
#1 - WHO THE HELL would send 960 lbs of rubber without asking first?
#2 - HOW THE HELL will we get these things moved?
#3 - WHAT THE HELL are we going to do with them? Even with a fork-lift we’d have to tear down our fence, because they won’t fit through the gate opening.
I have to say it one more time….WHO THE HELL WOULD SEND SOMEONE 690 LBS OF RUBBER? RUBBER? UGLY RUBBER AT THAT!
Enjoy a laugh on me. My family has been. I’ve heard jokes about putting one of the animals near the edge of the garage, so that in case I hit the garage it will bounce off the rubber. Another popular side-splitter is that if we hear a noise outside, it’s probably just the dolphin flipping around. My favorite one is the idea of decorating them on holidays (you know lights on them at Christmas, eggs at Easter, etc…).
OMG, that is too hilarious, well….not really, but kinda! I feel for you, that is awful! What ARE you going to do with them?
Okay. So it’s a little funny! Would the rubber-giver be offended if you donated them to a preschool or something?
Well….good questions. We’ve considered telling the “rubber-giver” (love that name by the way) that we just couldn’t get them into our backyard. There was an awful tornado that went thru here in Nov. 05 killing approx. 20 in my city alone (mostly in a mobile home park). Some mothers who lost their children have recently created a park in that neighborhood in memory. So we have considered donating them to that good cause. I’m unsure how to get them there?? I’m just in shock that someone would send 690 lbs of rubber without letting you know first!!!!!
Haha, have fun trying to make good use of those!
No kidding! That has to be the funniest thing I have heard happen in a long time!!!
That’s hilarious! Like you said, you could always use them as lawn decorations.
I guess they couldn’t figure out how to make the rubber flamingo stand up.
They remind me of the capsules that you dissolve in warm water and they grown into some sort of squishy animal. Really big capsules.
There is always ebay. Buyer to pay shipping of course.
I hadn’t thought about it, but these do remind of the tiny little things that grow 30x’s their size when they soak in water! Our son loves those things! Let’s hope when it rains here next that these don’t grow to 30x’s their size!!