The gift that keeps on giving
Just in time for Christmas: Drive Someone Insane with Postcards!
You are bidding on a rare chance to traumatize a treasured friend or relative with baffling, mind-numbing, mystery correspondence from abroad.
Here is the arrangement:
I will be spending the Christmas holiday in Poland in a tiny village that has one church with no bell because angry Germans stole it. Aside from vodka, there is not a lot for me to do.
During the course of my holiday I will send three postcards to one person of your choosing. These postcards will be rant-ravingly insane, yet they will be peppered with unmistakable personal details about the addressee. Details you will provide me. The postcards will not be coherently signed, leaving your mark confused, guessing wildly, crying out in anguish.
“How do I know this person? And how does he know I had a ferret named Goliath?”
The current bid, as of this posting, is $250. Not a bad way to subsidize one’s vacation.
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That would drive me bat-shit crazy, but it would be really exciting.
Jessica, I tapped this for the FMU blog. Because I want more people doing this!
The winning bid was $415, and the posting has already spawned some shameless plagiarism and copy cats.
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