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[apocalypsos]

Let's play a game.

My parents live next door to a psycho, bigoted old coot whose main purpose in life seems to be alienating the rest of humanity. When he called this weekend, my dad informed me that not only is the guy still alive, he's been seen walking around our small town carrying a cardboard box. The same cardboard box, by the way, that he's carried around town for years and never leaves the house without.

So ... what's in the box?

Comments

[hemlock-martini.livejournal.com]

Um.

Ever seen Se7en?

[linaerys.livejournal.com]

I'm sure everyone's going to say a severed head.

[harmonyfb.livejournal.com]

Tinfoil - it blocks the fbi mind probes.

[dexwebster]

His dead wife's ashes?

[stone-princess.livejournal.com]

"Gifts" for his future bride? Lotion for it to rub into it's skin?

[cleobourne.livejournal.com]

something light...must hold some sort of 'emotional' feel good vibe. Like a security blanket. Maybe his alter ego is in the box and he checks on it to make sure it is still 'alive' and makes it give him the answers to all of lifes mysteries?

[casapazzo.livejournal.com]

Schroedinger's Cat.

Or a desiccated pastrami sandwich and really old newspaper clippings.

[kolys.livejournal.com]

He's actually a hero to us all, and is carrying a box full of undeserved Oscars that he's stolen from their recipients in an effort to reward their rightful owners. :)

[feath.livejournal.com]

If this were a book, it would be something that brings tears to your eyes, and wishes you had realized when he was still alive, that he wasn't a mad old man, but in fact, a hero; after saving the world, he was driven insane, and there is one thing -- a rose from the lost princess of Elenor, perhaps, or something, that he carries in the box; the one last thing that was her's, that she gave him in reward for his valor. It is his horrable memory of her bloody death that sent him over the edge -- he was THAT CLOSE to saving her, but missed! Missed! And he has been twisted and warped ever since....if it wasn't for that box, he would have killed himself long ago.

[dargie.livejournal.com]

Probably just a sandwich and an apple. There's no romance left in the world. *g*

[justbluemyself.livejournal.com]

Nothing. There is absolutely nothing in the box.

[budclare.livejournal.com]

Are you sure that he's not just conducting a complex psychological/sociological/anthropological experiemnt? (I can't believe that I got through the three long words without a typo and then screwed up "exeriment." And...I did it again. Experiment. Right.) Sounds like the kind of thing I'd do. Maybe someday he'll publish a book about it. (Mad As a Hatter: Being Crazy in a Small Town)

[blackgarden.livejournal.com]

An entire tiny universe.

Full of leetle beings that have no idea their everything is being carried around in a cardboard box by a crazy man.

...

Disturbing, isn't it? The walls of our universe could be cardboard!

[miggy.livejournal.com]

Godot.

[darqstar.livejournal.com]

Hitlers ashes. Or, just random fireplace ashes he thinks are Hitlers.

[ashenmote.livejournal.com]

I'd say it is simply a pair of spare shoes, just in case.

Or else it holds the dress for a super hero with an excellent secret identity.

Maybe both.

[thenetwork.livejournal.com]

A lost marble with a galaxy trapped in it.

[kolys.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's Jesus.

That way, any time someone comes up to him in the street (as happens to me with monotonous regularity) and asks him whether he's found Jesus, he can point to the box, grin widely and say, "Yup." Or better still, "I got your Jesus right here".

[virgulesmith.livejournal.com]

We have a guy in the town I grew up in who has been wearing the same letterman's jacket for 25+ years. A differently abled fellow, he spends his days tromping about the city, watching kids play sports and visiting the stores.

I don't know why he wears the jacket. But I think they give him a new jacket every 5 years or so.

Maybe psycho man has his an outfit from his high school. Only he can't fit into it anymore, so he carries it in the box. Its in there, neatly folded. The box is the one his X-Ray glasses came in.

[coyotegoth.livejournal.com]

Ever see Barton Fink?

[thespatz.livejournal.com]

"The stuff that dreams are made of..."

Or, y'know, foam packaging peanuts, in case he needs to mail a fragile object at whim.

[muffytaj.livejournal.com]

An umbrella. Or ... or... *bursts into tears* Oh Gods, tell me how horrible he is so I can stop feeling so sorry for him!

[myniamh.livejournal.com]

*burns with curiosity* *plots to steal box*