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Re: take a piece, leave a piece -- traveling box of LEGO
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Sat, 24 Jul 1999 23:01:20 GMT
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WATTSUP1@EARTHLINK.NETspamless
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I just had a ring of the doorbell and found a U.S. priority mail box sitting on the
front step.
At first, after giving it a shake, heard the familiar sound of a lego rattle, and
thought "I didn't order anything in the last week from an auction".
Then upon opening the box, found a mix and match (jambalaya) of parts that reminded
me of a garage sale bin.
I asked my wife if she ordered anything for me as a surprise. No.
I looked at the return address and saw it postmarked from Burlington, Ma.
I don't know anyone from Burlington.
Then I thought that someone must have had my name and address mixed-up with someone
who must have paid for an auction prize and it was shipped to me by mistake.
Then I remembered asking Todd to put me on the list for TAPLAP.
Can this be????
With so many messages, I must have missed one that said it started.
I've tried to go back through all of the original thread and then to this group,
but I'm not sure where I send it next and waht the final "rule" were that everyone
decided on.
Is there a list with names / addresses?
I thought we discussed putting a log or diary in the box, but I didn't find
anything.
Is there a website?
Sorry for the long message and the wonderful surprise; whoever it was that sent
this to me.
What do I do next?
-Phil Watt - Los Gatos, Ca.
Tom Stangl wrote:
> Add me to the queue.
>
> Todd Lehman wrote:
>
> > In lugnet.general, Todd Lehman writes:
> > > Here's an idea I've been itching to try out for about 4 years... I've got
> > > a box of several hundred (or maybe 1000 or more, I haven't counted) LEGO
> > > elements that I know I'll never use. These come from buying up large
> > > collections at garage sales or on the net, in order to get a few sets I
> > > wanted for my Space collection, but there was always stuff left over.
> > > [...big snip!...]
> >
> > Zoinks! I just dug the box out of the closet, and it's more than I'd
> > remembered. There's 16 pounds of LEGO semi-sorted into about two or three
> > dozen ZipLoc bags of varying sizes (from a pint up through two-gallon).
> >
> > At first blush, this complicates things, because now instead of one big mix
> > there are several big less-mixes. But let's forget that and just say that
> > this is good like it is, because now there's definitely plenty of fodder for
> > several packages (at least 5, I should think), and I wouldn't want to mix
> > stuff together that's already semi-sorted.
> >
> > Suzanne is away this week at a trade conference and has the camera, so when
> > she gets back I'll snap some photos of the LEGO and take queue requests.
> > Mostly, it's mixes of 70's & 80's stuff -- a bag classic red 70's windows
> > (many sizes), a bag of town and space and castle parts, a bag of minifigs,
> > a bag of trees, a bag of old gears, a bag of old wheels, a couple bags of
> > generic bricks, etc. Too much stuff to list; photos will work better.
> >
> > I'm not going to sort any of it into sub-bags; I'll probably actually combine
> > a few bags so that it works out to 5 or 6 roughtly equally sized packages to
> > mail. Fair enough?
> >
> > --Todd
> >
> > p.s. This is straying off-topic from the spirit of .general at this point
> > and into the spirit of a person-to-person "trade" type of thing, so follow-
> > ups on this article are set to .market.buy-sell.trade (stay tuned there for
> > more details)...
>
> --
> | Tom Stangl, Technical Support Netscape Communications Corp
> | Please do not associate my personal views with my employer
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