College student's care package filled with trash he neglected at home

Feb. 21 (UPI) -- A Pennsylvania college student said he opened up a care package from his mother and found something unexpected -- the trash he had forgotten to take out on Christmas break.

Connor Cox, a freshman at Westminster College in New Wilmington, posted a photo to Twitter showing the box full of trash his mother sent him at school.

"Thought my mom was sending me a care package... but instead she sent me a box of trash i was supposed to take out," Cox tweeted.

Cox said he had been expecting some of the comforts of home.

"It's like Christmas," told KDKA-TV of receiving a care package from his mother. "Six hours away, I can't really go home and go to the grocery store because I don't have a car up here, so it's a really good feeling."

"I received a box like this, and I was expecting a bunch of food, chips, stuff like that," he said. "And I opened it up, and saw a bunch of trash! I called my mom and we talked about it. Asked her if she sent me the wrong box, because that's how confused I was. But she said it was the right box, and I had to be held responsible for what I didn't do."

Cox said he was supposed to throw the trash away when he was home for winter break, but he neglected to finish the chore.

"I thought I could get away with it this one time," he said, "but, obviously, I didn't."