Monday, December 22, 2008

Neither snow nor rain...

You know that old saying about mailmen - "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds"? Well, our mail carrier obviously doesn't follow that belief. He is quite the prima donna actually. Our mailman will not deliver our mail unless the area in front of the bank of mailboxes is plowed to his exact specifications. Which, of course, the town does not do. He is very persnickity and God forbid he have to actually stretch his arm out of his car to put the mail in. Luckily our neighbor who lives the closest to the bank of mailboxes usually cleans it out for us. Rich must not have done it on Saturday because our mail never came that today. Hopefully it will come today.

When I was home on maternity leave with Jake the mailman didn't come for 3 days because the mailboxes weren't plowed out to his specification. Our neighbor, Rich, is a fireman and had been on duty for those 3 days. I finally went up there myself and dug it out with a snow shovel. Mind you this was not long after I had given birth. And the area was already plowed, just not the way our mailman likes it.

He is such an ass.

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