The Man in My Toilet Came From China for a Buck
I may have just succeeded in posting the most incongruous title in Black Gate online history, but it does make perfect sense: read on, and I will present a mystery of the Orient, an enigma from eBay, a conundrum on the commode!
As you can see over on the right side of your screen, a tiny man peeps out from under the lid of my toilet’s holding tank asking “Hello?”
In my nine years of eBay hunting, I have come across many strange things: shrunken heads, souls for sale, magic spells (guaranteed to work). I have chronicled some of those finds here at Black Gate. But this one caught my eye, not because of the rather run-of-the-mill object, but the price.
When he arrived in my mailbox, a sticky decal neatly folded into a small, padded manila envelope, I found myself asking very much the same thing: “Hello?” as in “Hello, what have we here?” Even though I had, indeed, ordered him, I was still somewhat baffled that he should arrive at all.
The reason for my bewilderment is that he was shipped from China; he cost 89 cents; shipping was FREE.
I couldn’t tell you what I was searching for when this came up, but there it was. The item was listed as follows:
Toilet Monster Hello Bathroom Decal Funny Creative Vinyl Sticker Wall Art Funny.
And if you know me, you know there are some key trigger words in that there spray of language that would grab my attention.
