This it an add from Craigslist that someone found and posted on
PDXKayaker.org. I can only hope that a
PDXK'er picked this up. I can see this thing being the star of the next
PDXKayaker Video.
Subject: interesting seattle craigslist ad... surely someone's got a
use for this thing..
Free HUGE Inflatable Pickle
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Reply to: sale-142066141@craigslist.org
Date: 2006-03-15, 6:15AM PST
Free to good home:
Giant inflatable pickle. It's made of canvas-like material. Kind of
like a rubber raft would be.
By giant I mean really giant. I haven't inflated it in awhile, but
it's seriously 3 or 4 times as long as my car and at least as big
around. I could seriously park my toyota inside if there was a way
in.
It says "Heinz" on one side.
A word to the wize: this is not as cool as it sounds. It's seriously
a terrible nuisance. It weighs probably over 100 lbs and takes up
tons of space in my garage.
It's completely Useless. When I got it, I was super stoked,
envisioning myself spending all kinds of quality time with the
pickle, inflating it at the park, floating it bravely in lake
washington, sliding with it down some untamed mountain slope. That
is the vision. It won't happen, because the thing takes about 45mins
to inflate and even longer to deflate and fold up. It's seriously
extremely heavy and impossible to move. If there is even the
slightest wind, watch out. An unteathered pickle will go on a
destructive rampage, rolling over anything in its path and careening
down hills and across open spaces. This happened at the beach and
was a terrible experience. My wife said that she wished the pickle
had blown out to sea.
That was the last time the pickle has been out, and I'm sure it's
not happy. That's why I am going to give it away to someone who can
use the pickle properly. Maybe a school with a pickle as thier
mascot? If I don't get rid of it, it's going to ruin my marriage.
this is in or around Northend
no -- it's NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other
commercial interests
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