Wednesday, January 16, 2019

Occasionally,

I browse the Craigslist "wanted" section.
You know, in case people need something I might have.
Anyhoo...
I ran across a stolen go kart ad, and then one that read,
"re: stolen go kart ad (spell check, it's on your computer)"
I like to read follow up ads.
As it turns out, this may have been the best follow up I have read in a while.
I knew it would be flagged and removed,
and since I'm a quick thinker (usually within days I think of stuff),
I copy and pasted it to a word document to share with you.
You are welcome.
Now before you read it and think I'm terrible for laughing at this, I will say I'm not one for making fun of people.
I'm not.
In fact, I usually try to take the side of the person being made fun of.
But, when someone is this clever, I tend to laugh.
You be the judge.
Just don't judge me.
Judge them.
In fact, the Bible says "Judge Not...", so just be quiet and read it.
Try not to laugh.
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I have decoded your ad, because some readers might not understand it:

STOLEN GO KART (72ND TACOMA WA)
Date: 2010-09-07, 12:04PM PDT
Reply to: sale-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.org [Errors when replying to ads?]

PLEASE HELP .................... STOLEN GO KART BRING BACK MY 4 KIDS THAT ARE 10,8,5,4,(were your kids also stolen too?)THEY JUST GOTTEN IT AND NOW IT'S GONE date stole AUG20,2010 IT WAS IN OUR GRAGE(Crap! Thanks Olive, you mean garage right? or car-hole) AND SOME ONE BROKE IN AND STOLE IT WHEN WE WERE NOT HOME.
IF YOU HAVE INFO PLEASE CALL 253 255-7688 AND RETURN IT TO US IT'S BEEN A MAJORE ISSAPPOINTMENT (major disapointment right, kind of like our state governess? Unless Majore Issapointment is someone at JBLM) TO MY KIDS
IV LEARNED A LESSON WATCH WHO UR FRIENDS ARE(are you going to watch my friends? I don't have any so there won't be much to do) .

SO IF MARKIS KOCH DOSENT RETURN IT THEN THE PLACE HE SOLD IT TO HE WILL BRING THEM DOWN WITH HIM POLICE WILL BE NOTIFIED OF BOTH IF NOT RETURNED(ok, so the place Markis sold it to, they will bring him down with Police? I'm confused. What both are you talking about? Was Markis stolen too? Or did Markis steal the place he sold it to? Were the Police stolen as well?)

WE KNOW WHO STOLE IT AND CHARGES WILL BE PRESSED UNLESS RETURNED BACK.(You can't press charges and then not press charges, no give backs on that, as Yoda says, "do or not do", or something like that. Have you seen Star Wars? Great movie, went downhill after that Jar-Jar Binks asshat showed up).
ITS HAS A HARD FIBER GLASS RACE CAR SHELL THAT IS REMOVABLE. THE MOTER ON BACK IS AN ORANGE COLOR . IT WAS YELLOW BUT HAS RECENTLY BEEN PAINTED RED AFTER IT WAS STOLEN(so what color is the motor, is it orange, yellow or red? I like the primary scheme going on here, but if it looks like a bag of Skittles,"hit me tubesock!", then you need to let us know. We can't actually see what color is underneath the other color, this isn't History Detectives you know) . WHAT IF IT WHERE YOUR CHILDREN THAT HE STOLE IT(Ok again I'm confused, are you asking "what if where your children are that he stole it", or "what if it were your children that he stole it from") ???? DO RIGHT THING YOU WOULD WANT SOME ONE TO HELP & RETURN IT IF IT WHERE UR KIDS(Wow, and the ending just drops off like a Soprano's season ending episode. I'm going out on a very shaky limb but I'm guessing you mean to write,"do the right thing, you would want someone to help and return it if it were your kids", am I right? Woo-hoo look at me!).
PLEASE RETURN IT . THANKS REWARD MY VERY


"Very? Very what Carrot??"
I don't know.
That's how it ended.
I hate cliff hangers.

14 comments:

Heidi said...

oh. my. gosh! i am laughing so hard (quietly) as the house has gone to bed. ok, yes, houses don't go to bed. families do. my family that lives in my house has gone to bed. 'cept me.
your clever wit never ceases to amaze me. at first i was confused and thought you had written the parenthes (sp?) additions, and then realized that it was what you had cut/pasted. you clever, clever girl.
no wonder we're related. ;0

Physcokity said...

That was more painful to see than an episode of the Office, and just like the Office had some very funny moments. Although at the end of all this I'm still scratching my head.

The only judgement call I see fit to make is that some people should have their internets privileges revoked ;)

S said...

Good stuff! I love craigslist. This just adds to the love:) Yellow, red or orange:)

Heffalump said...

Wow! I'm not sure even spell check would have helped!

Jennifer B. said...

You find the best stuff!

Yvonne said...

Seriously???? All I can say is HOW IN THE WORLD?

Coordination Queen said...

hehehe. that was awesome.

Klin said...

Most amusing. I was laughing. A lot. The decoder could be a therapist. Seriously. That's most of my job. Decoding what the meaning of peoples words or actions mean.

I love the Jar Jar Binks comment. Tooooo funny.

Tarnation said...

So funny! It beats my husband's choice of reading the obituaries to find funny stuff. I think.

Tarnation said...

So funny! It beats my husband's choice of reading the obituaries to find funny stuff. I think.

aubreyannie said...

oooh dear. i read tacoma and nodded my head in complete understanding. terrible, but true.

favorite: but if it looks like a bag of Skittles,"hit me tubesock!", then you need to let us know.

i love whoever responded to this..love them so much.

Nathan said...

Oh my. It's like a foreign language.

Do you suppose the Rosetta Stone would be any help? Is that what you used?

mindyluwho said...

I needed a good laugh to start off my morning!

Becky Home-ecky said...

Umm, I found you from cjane's blog and have to say----I lived in Tacoma for 2 years, around/near 72nd St. and yep, that pretty much sums up half of Tacoma for you.

Hi-larious. Love it!