I don't check the mail very often. I haven't always been this way; I remember in college being PUMPED about checking that tiny P.O. box! I'll hypothesize that email has replaced the need for traditional mail in my life and that's why I don't check it often. Whatever.
I do this at both home and work.
(I was at my new store for several months before I even discovered WHERE the mailbox was. Turns out it's in a field behind my store where any ole body could walk by and swipe it, but, as far as I know, haven't been tempted to.)
Yesterday one of my employees was grilling me on where to find the mailbox (She's clearly got something exciting coming via the USPS), so she disappeared into the freezing cold and came back five minutes later with a massive stack of mail. She was sad. "Oh, guess it looks like the mail's already come today." Probably not - I just haven't checked it since December.
My story does have a point, sort of. And here it comes...There was a 2008 Calendar in the massive mail stack from Copesan, the pest people. They are very friendly and service my store monthly, so how nice that they would send out a calendar. Not just any old calendar, but a calendar with "EXQUISITE GLOSSY COLOR PHOTOS!"
Who wouldn't want to look at that calendar? I was actually getting a little excited about the mail.
I ripped it open and the first exquisitely glossy color photo I saw was of a huge roach. I think there was a praying mantis representing another month beside it, but I shouted and threw the calendar across the room before I could fully register the image. Ugh. The pest people grossed me out.
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