these are great....keep your eyes open.

My favorite of these bits of lunacy (and I do love them) was featured in The New Yorkers "Talk of the Town" some years back. A guy I know wrote it, after he'd stumbled onto a NYT classifies that said: "Seeking 1,000 live cockroaches. Good price offered." Turns out the fellow (a nice young grad student at Columbia had one of the inevitable cretinous, greedy, vile NYC landlords. He was refusing to refund the deposit because the fleabag flop joint hadn't been restored "to conditions identical to those said tenant took occupancy of."A pretty common and equally transparent ruse, of course. This particular landlord would try to get a free interior paint kob and then still refuse to refund the deposit. The kid who ran the ad had already painted every interior surface glossy enamel black (including windows, cupboards and floors, and he was drinking with abandon with friends waiting for the roaches arrived. Because he had indeed quickly found a seller (many of them, in fact). So he picked a couple of neighborhood urchins and they showed up right on time, absolutely amazed that any grown-up could possibly have survived into his mid-20s without learning how to trap cockroaches; the boys must've had 10,000 of them squirming around inside two rabbit cages wrapped in window screen. The student paid them $50 or so and the by-now-plastered Columbia students freed them all, ran to the hallway and taped the gap beneath the door and the scurvy carpet in the hall shut, thus leaving the apartment in identical shape to what the tenant had found.

Burrito Babe is a great name or a song/story or poem. Like it M

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They found my burrito? If anyone wants to buy it I'll throw in the two intact drumsticks from my other classified ad. $6