hori Posted December 11, 2016 Share Posted December 11, 2016 (edited) Crazy thing happened today. 6 years ago we bought a house and there was a side door to the house into the laundry room that the previous owner had bolted shut after having their house broken into. We never bothered to use it and left the bolted locks on it, just put the cats shitting box in front of the door and never thought about it for the past 6 years. Fast forward to today, me and my daughter were outside playing in the first snowfall of the year and decided to bug the shit out of my wife who was cranky inside the house playing some nicky nicky nine doors on her. We started at the front door of course but then decided to open the screen door at the side of the house to give a knock to that bolted up side door with the cats shit box on the other side. I guess I had never opened that outside side door since we moved in 6 years ago as to my shock sitting there was a uline type record mailer with bugs and crud all over it. I checked the date stamped on it and it was friggin May if 2012. The damn thing had been there for almost 5 years!! What the hell! I was sure it would be a disaster after opening that mailer up as it had basically been outside here in Canada for all that time. The sender did a great job packing it as the bloody thing was in great shape still! I had no clue what was inside though but doubted it was something of any value and was probably something I had either purchased again or didn't give a crap about anymore. Well it was neither, it was a record still on my want list that I never managed to get around to purchasing and the only album by this band I was still missing on vinyl. It was the original pressing of the Photo Album by Death Cab for Cutie and I know it was the original as the repress came out like 2 years after that damn package was delivered to the side door! Edited December 11, 2016 by hori Sp zerohacker, slinch, fuckinandsuckinandtouchin and 10 others 13 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek™ Posted December 11, 2016 Share Posted December 11, 2016 It's a Christmas miracle. Rip, chkadea and Tommy 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
One Hundred Fifty-Two Posted December 11, 2016 Share Posted December 11, 2016 Lead story at 10: boring shit happens in Canada. stl_ben, pizza face, Tommy and 4 others 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Posted December 11, 2016 Share Posted December 11, 2016 Side door pranks vol 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dub Posted December 11, 2016 Share Posted December 11, 2016 You had me at shitting box Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommy Posted December 11, 2016 Share Posted December 11, 2016 (edited) What the hell, no pics??? Edited December 11, 2016 by Tommy pushbacktosquare and pizza face 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
youspinmeround Posted December 11, 2016 Share Posted December 11, 2016 I was more intrigiued that on Dec 10 you had your first Canadian snowfall......and people think global warming isnt real? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reshiram Posted December 11, 2016 Share Posted December 11, 2016 That was a lot of hype for a Death Cab album honestly. Very Anti-climatic. pushbacktosquare and youspinmeround 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DecayToDeath Posted December 11, 2016 Share Posted December 11, 2016 1 minute ago, Reshiram454 said: That was a lot of hype for a Death Cab album honestly. Very Anti-climatic. Personally, I'd have been excited pushbacktosquare 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bladewillisisdead Posted December 12, 2016 Share Posted December 12, 2016 Yeah, IIRC that album was going for triple digits for awhile. There are a lot of DCFC albums that would be a bummer to find, but The Photo Album is dope as hell. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lexicondevil Posted December 12, 2016 Share Posted December 12, 2016 That was a pretty cool story. I do think annoying your wife when she is already cranky is a big mistake. You must like getting your ass kicked! Congrats on the record find. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kgry Posted December 12, 2016 Share Posted December 12, 2016 On 12/10/2016 at 9:03 PM, hori said: nicky nicky nine doors I had to actually Google that phrase. Could have gone the extra mile and dump the shitting box on your wife's head. Extra nicky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hori Posted December 12, 2016 Author Share Posted December 12, 2016 (edited) I wish the buried treasure was some rare Beatles first pressing but seeing as I never order anything like that I was just happy it was still in 1 pc. Here are some pictures, have to give a big shout out to Bags Unlimited as it was their mailer that kept it preserved all that time. And as for the shitting box here is a pic with minimal shit. One of my fav jokes goes like this....Do you like cleaning shit out of a small box? Get a cat. http:// image uploading Edited December 12, 2016 by hori sp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hori Posted December 12, 2016 Author Share Posted December 12, 2016 3 minutes ago, hori said: I wish the buried treasure was some rare Beatles first pressing but seeing as I never order anything like that I was just happy it was still in 1 pc. Here are some pictures, have to give a big shout out to Bags Unlimited as it was their mailer that kept it preserved all that time. And as for the shitting box here is a pic with minimal shit. One of my fav jokes goes like this....Do you like cleaning shit out of a small box? Get a cat. http:// image uploading Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommy Posted December 12, 2016 Share Posted December 12, 2016 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paynegretzky Posted December 13, 2016 Share Posted December 13, 2016 Crazy! But how that can go unnoticed for 4.5 years is really getting to me - shit box barrier and all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacobe Posted December 13, 2016 Share Posted December 13, 2016 Did you get refunded for this years ago? If so, you should mail them a check out of nowhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottheisel Posted December 13, 2016 Share Posted December 13, 2016 If you posted this story to reddit, you'd make it to the top of /r/vinyl in no time. Tommy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Han Solo Posted December 14, 2016 Share Posted December 14, 2016 I'm surprised the record itself didn't snap in the cold. When I was a kid I left some CDs in the car overnight and by the morning the cases were cracked. Never made that mistake again, especially in winter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
somethingvinyl Posted December 16, 2016 Share Posted December 16, 2016 Great story! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TFP Posted December 16, 2016 Share Posted December 16, 2016 This sounds like a story told after a hoarder cleans their house haha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas³ Posted December 16, 2016 Share Posted December 16, 2016 On 12/14/2016 at 3:29 AM, Han Solo said: I'm surprised the record itself didn't snap in the cold. When I was a kid I left some CDs in the car overnight and by the morning the cases were cracked. Never made that mistake again, especially in winter Odd, I've never had that happen. I usually always have a bunch of CDs in my car. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paynegretzky Posted December 16, 2016 Share Posted December 16, 2016 ^^^ Not sure where y'all are from (Han Solo is from Space, where it's cold, I hear) but I live far East coast of Canada where we actually had school cancelled today because of cold weather and high winds lol. I've had CDs crack into pieces, which always had me worried about buying records and not being home once they arrive... but so far 100% success at buying intact-when-cold records. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
No This Is Patrick Posted December 16, 2016 Share Posted December 16, 2016 Only thought I have... why was this delivered to a side door? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhulud Posted December 16, 2016 Share Posted December 16, 2016 This is a pretty funny and awesome story! Things like this just makes you laugh and see how ridiculous life can be sometimes. THE_James_Champ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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