It's lead me to some strange behavior... I am remodeling an old house and hid a time capsule in the floor just so someone would find it. I was a little worried that someone would find it too soon... Like as they were working on the downstairs a few months later. That seems like it would be weird. Definitely an awkward interaction with the contractor who finds it.
"Hey is this yours?"
"What me?...No! I don't know what the hell you're talking about. Why's it gotta be mine?"
"Ok relax. I thought is was yours... it begins with 'Greetings from the earthdweller Trevor Asay of the year 2008'"
"... ... ... uh yeah that's mine"
Anyway, I bring this up because I threw a penny today that landed in my cat's litter box. I was thinking that someday a futuristic archeologist will try to explain why there is a coin and cat shit in a bag at the landfill. Maybe they'll get the amount wrong and think that the coin, which is only a penny, is worth a lot of money. They'll think that I worship cats and will actually put money in with the cat's poop as a sign of respect or something.
I find myself really wanting future people to find my trash and analyze it so in an effort to increase my chances, I have stopped recycling altogether. I have also started writing journals filled with nonsensical gibberish about what I did that day. I plan to bury them in areas where it is highly likely they will eventually be found. Near major road construction and so on. I'll probably have some in my coffin. They contain daily events such as the following:
"10pm- woke up to the sound of my cat god purring, ate a bowl of paper flakes for breakfast and drove around in my single person combustion engine vehicle to further the Great Global Warmer Cause that all cat god's demand. As the faithful know, cat gods love to be warm. "
Anyway, this scientist who finds my journal would then see that the reason that their future world has no atmosphere is because all of us who owned cats were actually a cult of extremist who worshiped our felines and thought we could heat up the globe for our cat god's comfort by lobbying our legislatures for looser emissions laws, and so on... Think of how much other evidence would support this idea. "A very suspicious 98 percent of politicians either owned a cat, or were in close relationship with someone who did, in the ancient year 2009."; "Entire department stores, now in ruins, found to be dedicated to selling things to entertain ancient cat gods". The list probably goes on...
An interesting idea. The first one that popped into my head when I threw a coin in Rolly's litter box and then cleaned it. But this happens pretty much every time I throw something away.
