NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. – A Pennsylvania college student got a reminder to take out the trash when his mother sent him some garbage in a care package.
Eighteen-year-old Connor Cox told WHTM-TV that his mother sent two boxes to him at Westminster College in New Wilmington last month.
But that giddy feeling didn’t last very long: one box that his mother sent contained food and goodies. The other contained garbage.
When he called to ask whether that was a mistake, Cox’s mother, Connie, told him, “No, that’s the trash you were supposed to take out” during a recent visit home.
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“I thought I could get away with it this one time, but obviously, I didn’t,” he said.
Cox says he laughed hysterically at the prank, then tweeted a photo of the package.
Cox has three sisters and says he has a special relationship with his mother. He says, “She knows what to say at the exact time she should say it.”
— with files from Jenny Rodrigues
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