MetaChat - C'mon, fess up. Who sent me a book?

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25 April 2009

C'mon, fess up. Who sent me a book? →[More:]
I got a book this morning via Amazon that I hadn't ordered. There was no invoice with it, so I know it's from a third party. But who sent it?

The book is 'Overworld: The Life and Times of a Reluctant Spy' by Larry J. Kolb.

post by: essexjan at: 13:35 | 15 comments

Hmm, you don't have your wishlist in the Mecha wiki, so I would guess it was someone who did the Card Swap.

posted by Ardiril 25 April | 13:59

It wasn't me, but I wish I'd thought to send you a little present out of the blue!

posted by Specklet 25 April | 14:05

Have you ever mentioned that book online? Are you sure it was one of us?

posted by Ardiril 25 April | 14:23

I can't think who else might have sent it. I don't think I've ever heard of it before.

posted by essexjan 25 April | 14:37

This reminds me of that time I got a Bollywood DVD in the mail, addressed to me, and never found out who sent it.

posted by BoringPostcards 25 April | 15:21

BoPo: Was it any good?

posted by special-k 25 April | 16:10

I only checked out a few minutes of it, special-k. Didn't really seem like my kinda thing.

posted by BoringPostcards 25 April | 16:58

There was this time that my dad got this really handsome hardbound book with a fake (printed) handwritten note attached saying he should like it.

It was a 500-page self-published academic-language treatise on how the white race was being diluted by everyone Eye-talian and darker. Most memorable moment: how the Jews had stolen the nuclear secret and removed the one military advantage held by the Anglo-Saxons, whereas the secret of Greek fire had been kept secret for 500 years. So there.

Uh, was this anything like that?

posted by stilicho 25 April | 23:34

No, stilicho, it was just a padded envelope, from Bookclosouts.com/Amazon UK, posted through Germany but with a US Customs Declaration on it.

posted by essexjan 26 April | 03:36

Randall? Has anyone seen IRFH poking around people's wishlists again?

posted by Eideteker 26 April | 07:38

Several metachat members have, in the past, liked to send books to other members semi-anonymously. I think it's supposed to be a Random Act of Kindness. But usually it was something off a wishlist.

Confidential to Randall: I enjoyed Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance very much.

posted by muddgirl 26 April | 12:42

Mystery solved. The sender emailed me.

posted by essexjan 27 April | 11:35

Was it a bunny, or someone else?

posted by BoringPostcards 27 April | 11:47

It was a bunny.

posted by essexjan 27 April | 11:48

That doesn't surprise me at all. Very cool.

posted by BoringPostcards 27 April | 11:51

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