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Through the Eyes of a Delivery Goddess



Below you will find links to dates when new entries are added. The stories will not necessarily be in chronological order, but rather as I remember them. I am dating them so that you can skip to new ones you haven't read since the last time you visited, and so that you are more easily able to find something you found humorous to share with others.
Watering the Grass


Yesterday morning, we had another twenty minute wipers-at-high-speed down-pouring of huge rain drops. As I described in an earlier installment, Half Droopy, it's always a great time to deliver papers in the rain. Well, a hard down-pour is bad enough, but just like yesterday morning, sometimes the rain can be nearly horizontal. I drove by a home yesterday and literally got BLASTED in the face with water. I was already wet, but the water came in through my driver's side window with such force, that it soaked ... in a split second ... all of the newspapers stacked on my passenger's seat. Whoa!! Did I run through some big pool of water or something? I continued around the culdesac, knowing I'd run through whatever it was again, but to my suprise, THIS FAMILY HAD THE SPRINKLERS RUNNING.!!! I have always wondered why, people don't override their timers when they know it's going to rain. What a waste to run clean water over your lawn when it's pouring down rain, especially for hours. Well, one of the sprinklers at this house had been knocked on its side, so it was aimed right at passing cars. Most other cars THAT morning would have had their windows up because of the rain, and it would have made no difference, but, what about tomorrow morning when it's NOT raining? Will other innocent passersby get wholloped in the face with this horizontal blast through the driver's side window, and exactly what kind of work project sitting on the passenger seat will be ruined?

This is not the first time I've had a sprinkler hit me in the face while driving past a home at night. And it nearly always scares the life out of you because you're a bit on edge at night anyway, then to have something fly in the window at you without having time to think about the fact that it's JUST water, is horrifying. Most passing cars would not be that close to the edge of the street, so paper carriers are great targets before any other passing motorist.

So far, no one I know has ever experienced anything more than rain or sprinkler water, or a bug of some kind (usually a moth) flying in the window at night, Thank Goodness! I'm waiting to hear about that one experience, though, of something like a bat making it through the window at night. I think THAT would be more than horrifying!