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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.
New Handicap


A man who appeared to be around 30 with no apparent handicaps or short-comings, stood at the counter at the Mail Boxes Etc shipping store and complained loudly as I walked into the store. There is no way he could have known my background. I soon realized that he was having problems with his paper carrier. Apparently, his paper was normally in his door, and for the past two days, it had been out in the yard about five feet from his door, and the poor sorry sap had to put on a pair of sweats and shoes to go out and pick up his paper. Of course, I could not let this pass. I spoke up, "Did it ever occur to you that your regular carrier might have been in an accident and someone else has taken over temporarily? Or, that perhaps, he or she's been sick or injured and can't get out of the car to walk to your door? Or, that he or she might have decided that they deserved a few days off and hired someone else - or maybe went into labor and a manager is delivering for a few days? Paper carriers work 365 days per year, you know, and are only human.... SOMETIMES THINGS HAPPEN, EVEN TO THEM!!" I nearly fell over at his response. "If he was going to insist on a vacation, then he should have left notice with the jerk taking his place, that my paper goes in the door." At that, I said in a very snotty tone, "It appears to me, your only handicap is selfishness, and that doesn't warrant special delivery", and I walked out of the store. I went elsewhere to mail my package. It never even phased him that his carrier might have been in an accident - died of a heart attack, or whatever, and someone else had the task of finding 300 new addresses in the dark. Better be glad you even GOT a paper, buddy!