Fishing Tackle Box with tackle -- A craigslist Ad

I posted this on Craigslist Seattle, under the Free Stuff section on May 8th, 2013. I had posted this along with the fishing poles, but the guy who picked those up left the tackle box.

http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/zip/3792750590.html

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Right now, sitting on my front porch, is one of the worlds greatest things. A weeping Angel. Oh no, wait that's kind of scary. No, it's a tackle box, that has a large top lid compartment, and 2, count them, Two sidling drawer compartments with those little separator doodles to help you be organized.

Honestly, if you've been following the Free section of Craigslist you may have seem my other writings: The lamps that are LSD worthy, the desk that wanted love and pizza, the fishing poles that help parents teach children about lying. Gold I tell you, and not trying to be vain, but those were top notch gold standard essays.

But, wow, the best I come up with for this tackle box is a lame Dr. Who reference? That's what I get for being a college student married to a college student with two little rugrats and not getting enough sleep. So instead I sit and type and vent about my own failures as a writer. Unlike the tackle box. Which is a fantastic writer. Well ghost writer at least. The publishing company (they request that I don't divulge who they are in public) decided that having "Fishing Tackle Box" as the authors name was not as catchy as say Douglas Adams, Isaac Asimov, or Richard Scarry. Now those are names.

By the way the tackle box does come with some tackle, like you know like hooks and plastic worms, hooks, weights and other jiggly bits.

So instead the tackle box makes a decent living being a ghost writer for (also due to legal reasons I can't divulge those names, but let's just say that "A Charge to Keep: My Journey to the White House" would have been mostly pictures of animals and a high ranking politician using a lightsaber). It's not sad by it's lack of fame, of course, I mean at the end of the day it is just a tackle box. Oh, where does the money go that it earns? Not only is it a great writer, but the damn thing is also an Altruistic S.O.B. It gives away all of it's earnings to a variety of charities through a trust account that I cannot touch. So, be aware of that when you take the tackle box, you won't see a single dime. Unless you sell the fish you catch.

So why, my writing sucks today, I am off my game. I'll try harder later when I try to get rid of a wooden futon frame that is slightly broken and has been outside for several years.


Which reminds me, email for directions. I'll take the ad down once the tackle box is gone.

Cheers.