Crate

It must have been an overnight delivery.

It was just sitting there by his mailbox, when he went out to pick up his daily paper. It was a fairly large wooden crate with a single address label. There was no sign of any courier company’s logo. It was quite heavy, but he managed to carry it in and put it on the dining table. The sticker certainly had his address on it, but the name was hard to read. With building curiosity, he went out to the shed and returned with a heavy-duty screwdriver. He managed to lever the lid off. Inside, something was wrapped in bubble wrap. He lifted the thing out, and placing it down next to the crate, unwrapped it. It looked like some piece of electrical equipment, twice the size of a regular video player. It seemed to have a lid, much like a laptop computer.

He stood looking at it for a while before lifting the lid. It was obvious that it was a mis-delivery. He hadn’t ordered anything for ages, besides, nothing like this! Opening it, he found a complex array of electronic controls, some sort of dashboard.

Still curious, he spent time on the internet, describing the apparatus in as much detail as possible. Alarmingly, his research had repeatedly come up with the fact that he was in possession of a nuclear trigger device!

He went into the kitchen and put the kettle on.

After giving the thing serious thought, and on the basis that he would prefer to keep his involvement minimal, he returned to the dining room. There, he closed the lid, wrapped it back up, placed it in the crate and secured the wooden lid. He smudged out the address to make it unreadable, then made up a second label, saying, ‘Not known at this address. Return to sender’. This he taped next to the original sticker and put the thing in the boot of his car. Later, when the post office was closed, he’d drop it off at the side, where the vans usually parked

Then, he’d keep his fingers crossed…

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