The Toolbox
October 1st, 2008 by WHO WAS PHONE?
You wake up one morning to find a note taped to your mirror: “Don’t worry, I took care of everything.” Your clothes have been freshly laundered, the bathroom is spotless, and your garage has been organized. Even your faithful old toolbox has been replaced.
Later that week, there’s another note on your mirror: “GET OUT OF TOWN.” Paper-clipped to this message are several grainy photos of police in a taped-off section of a field. One of them is carrying your old toolbox in his latex-gloved hand.
Posted in Strange & Unknown
October 1st, 2008 at 12:45 pm
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October 1st, 2008 at 12:50 pm
thanks alot, mysterious samaritan!
October 1st, 2008 at 1:53 pm
OMG. As vauge as it was I still find it extremly creepy. Kudos.
October 1st, 2008 at 2:55 pm
Short and to the point. The type of story that would probably be hurt by suspense rather than helped. Ambiguous, but that’s good for this story; enough is said, not too much, not too little.
October 1st, 2008 at 3:16 pm
But where was field?
October 1st, 2008 at 3:49 pm
I liked this. I had to think a bit about what happened. Nice and short, which is how I like my pasta.
October 1st, 2008 at 3:58 pm
…Wow. Creepy and jarring. I love it.
October 1st, 2008 at 4:11 pm
This sounds very familiar….
October 1st, 2008 at 4:55 pm
um does that mean you went and did something with ur toolbox and the tool box is evidence or something
October 1st, 2008 at 5:18 pm
Not creepy, but it would suck if that happened.
October 1st, 2008 at 5:45 pm
i dont get it…..
October 1st, 2008 at 6:18 pm
oh i get it he killed someone without knowing it and this person hid the tools he used to do it and the body but they were both found and he would be caught or this person did it and framed the guy who owned the tools
October 1st, 2008 at 6:43 pm
THEN WHO WAS TOOLBOX?
October 1st, 2008 at 7:46 pm
Dayum.
I dont think I’d like having an obsessive well-wisher killing people for me.
O.o”
October 1st, 2008 at 7:49 pm
….BUT WHO WAS TOOLBOX?
October 1st, 2008 at 8:28 pm
i want too say I got it but i just a tad lost.Like he was deisesed or like is somthign that’s not suppos too be tere there ?
October 1st, 2008 at 9:10 pm
WHO WAS TOOLBOX????
October 1st, 2008 at 9:17 pm
Nice one.
October 1st, 2008 at 9:48 pm
ok…either u commited a crime, dont remember it and ur partner sent u the notes or someone used ur stuff to do it…i guess. aand sinse the notes are on the mirror (weird) i guess theres a possibility that it was lika…ghost? or smth? meh. w/e. it would suck to have to get outta town for smth u didnt do though..lol
October 1st, 2008 at 9:51 pm
Hello.
I have an overly high opinion of myself.
October 1st, 2008 at 10:15 pm
I like it. Although not so much creepy as it is intriguing. =)
October 1st, 2008 at 10:36 pm
So it was someone who was committing the crimes who did all this? Or maybe you black out when you did this? OR MAYBE IT WAS THE MIRROR PPL???
October 1st, 2008 at 11:41 pm
so… who was toolbox?
October 2nd, 2008 at 12:10 am
lol…framed!
October 2nd, 2008 at 12:40 am
THEN WHO WAS MULTIPLE PERSONALITY???
October 2nd, 2008 at 12:48 am
What? I don’t understand…
Murder?
October 2nd, 2008 at 3:07 am
I did it for the lulz
October 2nd, 2008 at 6:16 am
I’ve read this somewhere before…
October 2nd, 2008 at 7:47 pm
@25
Makes sense….wait…TYLER DURDAN?!
WE DO NOT TALK ABOUT PROJECT MAYHEM!
October 3rd, 2008 at 1:20 am
No, we didn’t do it. We’re having enough trouble as it is getting whatshisname into the 2-D world. We don’t have time for silly toolbox tricks.
October 3rd, 2008 at 2:09 am
okay okay okay…
if dude used ur toolbox to kill someone, and the cops found ur toolbox at the crime scene, they take it as evidence, lock it up in the evidence locker, how in the hell does it get back to your house????
October 3rd, 2008 at 5:29 am
The way I read this story, I always thought it was an oddly conscientious killer who took your toolbox to commit a crime but was kind enough to do your chores and warn you about it in return.
@31 - they can probably find out where you bought your tools and trace you through the hardware shop location/s, credit card purchase, or forensic shit.
October 3rd, 2008 at 11:53 pm
Am I the only one that thought that the second note was from the future and “you” are dead. The toolbox was found at the scene of your death. The note is telling you to leave town, to leave your death
October 5th, 2008 at 3:05 am
Sounds like the girl from the first season of Heroes; the one with the personality disorder.
October 5th, 2008 at 2:49 pm
lol I saw the phrase ‘GET OUT OF TOWN’ and immediately thought of that one episode of Spongebob.
Aside from that, it wasn’t too bad.
October 5th, 2008 at 4:29 pm
This is one of my favorites.
October 7th, 2008 at 2:24 am
I have no toolbox.
October 10th, 2008 at 4:42 pm
Ok, the way I see it, is that YOU left the notes. Multiple personalities, etc.
You killed someone with the toolbox, then got rid of it, washed all your bloodstained clothes and then cleaned your bathroom (Which was also probobly bloody), and bought a new toolbox before “waking up”.
Then, later, your other personality finds out about the police finding the toolbox and then leaves you another note.
October 12th, 2008 at 7:09 pm
WHO WAS TOOLBOX?!!1!
October 13th, 2008 at 9:16 am
Ahh crap. That means that there’s body parts in the toolbox or something. That’s nasty.
October 13th, 2008 at 9:19 am
38 is right. Although I don’t think he killed someone with the toolbox, I think he killed someone and put their mutilated parts IN the toolbox. I’ve heard that happen before. Other than that, that theory sounds true.
October 13th, 2008 at 5:41 pm
Why thank you. I suppose he could have put the body parts in the toolbox, though you would want to get rid of it either way, seeing as if someone is covered in bludgeon marks from your wrench you would NOT want that wrench to be traceable back to you.