[at-l] Why I blame Skylander...and, the USPS

[Steve Landis]

You drove to the mailbox!?!


Felix J wrote:
> So...yesterday we're talking about postage and stamps and cost and the 
> like. Skylander informed me that the cost to mail a standard first-class 
> envelope with one
> finely-folded letter had gone up two pennies. So, I found me two penny 
> stamps in my desk drawer and took them out to the mailbox to affix them 
> to an envelope I'd already stamped with one of the old, outdated 
> 42-centers. (This was NOT the envelope with the finely-folded letter. 
> Though, I took it with me and put it in the mailbox, too)  So, on my way 
> back from the mailbox...which is right at .2 miles down my driveway...I 
> remembered that I had a new windshield wiper blade behind the seat of my 
> truck...and, that one of my other trux was in need of this wiper blade 
> refill. So, upon parking I reach behind the seat and grab the refill and 
> take it to the in-need-of-it truck. After a minute of jacking around, I 
> had the refill nearly installed (though, I'm still not certain it is/was 
> the right size!). Needing just...a...little...bit...more...I take the 
> palm of my hand and add a little extra force...forcing the metal clip 
> that holds a wiper blade refill in place deep into the palm of my hand. 
> (Deep, in this case, is right at 1/2 an inch. Which doesn't sound all 
> that deep in some scenarios...like swimming pool depth and long drives 
> to deep center field.) So, after one attempt to extract it myself...and, 
> the indication that it wasn't going to budge...I drove myself to the ER 
> (after stopping at another 'quickie' medical facility who wouldn't do 
> anything to it). After a couple of hours of jacking around with the 
> folks there, and spending a lot of my own money, I had the piece removed 
> and drove myself home.
> The 'nurse practitioner' who removed it looked just like a mean version 
> of the woman who is portrayed as 'mom' on the Columbia Sportswear ads 
> (who may actually be the mom of Columbia Sportswear, I don't know) only 
> a little harsher. So...I was messin' around with her, and her assistant, 
> as I'm wont to do. At some point in the process, I believe when she was 
> about to inject the local anesthesia, I said to her "So, on a scale of 1 
> to 10, how much do you love me?"  She said "An 8!" and I said "My own 
> mom doesn't love me an 8".
> 
> I'm proud to say I took none of the pain killers she was wanting to put 
> in my IV...and, didn't fill the prescription for oral pain 
> killers...and, took no Tylenol or other drugs in the whole fiasco.
> 
> Afterwards, I drove myself home. And, here's the best part of the 
> story...right before I took the wiper blade refill from behind my seat I 
> thought "I should pee first"...as I live in the woods and peeing outside 
> is commonplace. And, I'd had a wonderful rainy day off doing little more 
> than drinking coffee and folding letters...so, I was needing to de-pee 
> my bladder badly. But, for some reason I chose to try to put the wiper 
> blade on first. So, almost 4 hours later...when I got back from the 
> ER...I was urinating in the exact spot I shoulda urinated in in the 
> first place...and, THAT may have made me not decide to put the wiper 
> blade refill on the truck that needed it.
> So, anyway...I'm thinking Skylander and the USPS should prepare for a 
> 'Co-pay' situation we hear so much about these days...
>