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

[Steve Landis]

...or the class of 98 nobo'ers who had 6 or 8 weeks of rain thru April/May

Bror8588 at aol.com wrote:
> Talk to the 2003 AT Hikers about walking in the rain OR you can listen 
> to Johnny Ray's song from the 1950s.
>  
> Skylander
>  
> In a message dated 2009-06-05 10:33:20 Eastern Daylight Time, 
> lbooher at charter.net writes:
> 
>     It was raining, which was why he wasn't out gardening.  a'bear
>      
>     Humankind (be both)
>      
>     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 to an envelope I'd already stamped with one of the old, outdated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...
>