The Tellitubbie Incident
I was walking through the Parking Lot of the OG Strip Club near my house yesterday & saw the Red Tellitubbie hanging in a tree & it made me think back to this story:
I have been know to write a prank letter or two in my life. And in 2006 or so I took a Pool Manager job at the Grand Condominium in downtown Miami that had me getting up at some un-godly hour in the morning. It was so early that the only thing on TV was PBS showing The Telletubbies & I would lay there in bed drinking my coffee trying to get awake & watch this.
After a few mornings of this, I noticed that they would all look at the sun, which had a face in it as well, and have a conversation with it. I thought "Good god!! they are going to burn their eyeballs out!" And this was the subject matter of my letter to the local PBS = "I'm so afraid my little Jennifer is going to burn her eyeballs out staring at the sun!!"
So a couple months go by & I get a knock on my door and its my crazy old frantic cuban coffee landlord jabbering on about a big box that came in the mail. So big in fact that he couldn't bring it up the steps to my 2nd floor apartment. I follow him downstairs and sure enough there is this really big box with my name on it. I'm not expecting a big box. I opened it right there on the spot to find all the Telletubbies dolls (the big ones) and a Noo-Noo, which is some sort of blue vacuum cleaner elephant looking machine thing and a letter. I took the Noo-Noo and the letter and told the landlord to give the dolls to the neighborhood kids. What was I supposed to do with them, have a tea party? Take them to the store for a refund?... I said I was bored not broke! I later saw in a store that those dolls sold for $30 a pc.
The letter was from the creator of the Telletubies in the UK thanking me for bringing this to her attention. Apparently the local PBS Station had forwarded my letter all the way to the top. Amazing!! And be as it may, such is my life, I was having this conversation with a lady from Philadelphia who was visiting at the condominium I was working at and she tells me she KNOWS the Telletubbie creator personally and calls her then and there on the spot to tell her she'd been "Punk'd". When I say I live the craziest life ever, I'm meaning IT!! It turned out that the Lady had a sense of humor about it and thought it was a real concern that the producers had over looked and she went on to thank me again for bringing the subject to her attention. So there is no telling how many childrens eyeballs I saved from being burned out by my heroic actions. I deserve an award I do know that.
A year later I would end up giving the Noo-Noo to this little 3 yr old girl in the building I work at. It was a sad day for sure giving it up. Presently I have a Magic Pony, a mini orange haired troll doll with a nuclear skull on its face and a Marge Simpson pez dispenser. Why I have these things I do not know. Fortune and Good luck???
I have been know to write a prank letter or two in my life. And in 2006 or so I took a Pool Manager job at the Grand Condominium in downtown Miami that had me getting up at some un-godly hour in the morning. It was so early that the only thing on TV was PBS showing The Telletubbies & I would lay there in bed drinking my coffee trying to get awake & watch this.
After a few mornings of this, I noticed that they would all look at the sun, which had a face in it as well, and have a conversation with it. I thought "Good god!! they are going to burn their eyeballs out!" And this was the subject matter of my letter to the local PBS = "I'm so afraid my little Jennifer is going to burn her eyeballs out staring at the sun!!"
So a couple months go by & I get a knock on my door and its my crazy old frantic cuban coffee landlord jabbering on about a big box that came in the mail. So big in fact that he couldn't bring it up the steps to my 2nd floor apartment. I follow him downstairs and sure enough there is this really big box with my name on it. I'm not expecting a big box. I opened it right there on the spot to find all the Telletubbies dolls (the big ones) and a Noo-Noo, which is some sort of blue vacuum cleaner elephant looking machine thing and a letter. I took the Noo-Noo and the letter and told the landlord to give the dolls to the neighborhood kids. What was I supposed to do with them, have a tea party? Take them to the store for a refund?... I said I was bored not broke! I later saw in a store that those dolls sold for $30 a pc.
The letter was from the creator of the Telletubies in the UK thanking me for bringing this to her attention. Apparently the local PBS Station had forwarded my letter all the way to the top. Amazing!! And be as it may, such is my life, I was having this conversation with a lady from Philadelphia who was visiting at the condominium I was working at and she tells me she KNOWS the Telletubbie creator personally and calls her then and there on the spot to tell her she'd been "Punk'd". When I say I live the craziest life ever, I'm meaning IT!! It turned out that the Lady had a sense of humor about it and thought it was a real concern that the producers had over looked and she went on to thank me again for bringing the subject to her attention. So there is no telling how many childrens eyeballs I saved from being burned out by my heroic actions. I deserve an award I do know that.
A year later I would end up giving the Noo-Noo to this little 3 yr old girl in the building I work at. It was a sad day for sure giving it up. Presently I have a Magic Pony, a mini orange haired troll doll with a nuclear skull on its face and a Marge Simpson pez dispenser. Why I have these things I do not know. Fortune and Good luck???
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