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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.
Booby Trapped


We have several customers in three story town houses that say they're handicapped and need their paper on their porch in the morning. The fact that logic might suggest that anyone living on three stories can probably make it to the driveway to pick up the paper is bad enough, but typically, folks dont' think about the fact that their paper boy is out there at 3 or 4am, delivering in the dark ... and I mean DARK. Occasionally there is faint light from a street light, or maybe from a lamp in the customer's window, but usually no big spotlights or runway lights, or anything like that. You all know that the night before Halloween has become a night of pranks and trickery by many teens - well, and folks old enough to know better, too. So, on Halloween Eve, when you have to get out of hte car to toss a paper to a porch, your hair is pulled away from your ears, you shut the radio off, you absolutely make sure you are one hundred percent aware of everything around you in case people are sneaking up on you. Bob got out of the car one year at one of our three story town homes to toss the paper to the porch and nearly ended up flat on his face. They had tied string from the bumper of the car, to the lamp post, to the porch post and to several other things there in the driveway as part of a Trick or Treat display from the previous night. It was only a foot or so off of the ground, the perfect height to trip someone who is not only unaware of the new obsticle, but it was too dark to see the string tied all over the place.

Good thing Bob is part cat - he landed on his feet anyway.