File this under the it can happen to anyone....
Yesterday, Monday, my hubby went out to the mailbox around 2:10 to check the mail. He found a stack of mail all belonging to our neighbor. So he took the stack and walked it nextdoor to put it in their mailbox and check to see if maybe our mail was there. The mailbox was empty.
At around the same time the girl 2 doors over is checking her mail and finds a big stack (12-15 envelopes) in her mailbox that belong to another neighbor about 3 doors down, so she walks over to put his stuff in the mailbox.
Meanwhile my husband is going over to our other neighbor on the opposite side to see if maybe our mail is there, it's empty.
I get home around 2:30 and he's telling me this. So i call the Post Office, which by the way was not listed anywhere on the phonebook, and i had to call the 1-800 number to find out the number. I tell the lady who answers the phone that apparently whoever they have delivering mail is making mistakes and did not deliver any of our mail today. She asks me where i live, i tell her the name of our street, and she says that another woman just called complaining about the same thing, and she's called the delivery person to figure out what's going on.
Get this. The mail person has not come on our street yet.
As i'm hanging up the phone the neighbor who is going through the same thing comes over and rings the bell. According to her, she and her husband came home saturday night from the football game around midnight. She figures she better let the dog out and steps out to her front porch. Her house faces the street head on, and she sees someone getting mail around this time. In her mind she says, "oh they must be getting home now and checking their mail". instead of turning and walking into their house they walk over to the next mailbox and open it. **Neighborhood regulations have all our mailboxes on the same side of the street, so in most cases there are 2 or 3 mailboxes right next to each other** So she thinks maybe they opened the wrong one by mistake. But then they open the 3rd mailbox and she's starting to freak out. At the same time the dog barks and the person turns around to look towards her house. She quick calls the dog in and goes inside. The person crosses the street towards the front house. She goes to spy from the window and sees the person hide behind some trees and after a few minutes goes back to the side of the street and looks in the following mailboxes.
She picks up the phone and calls the police. Nobody picks up and she goes to get her husband. He tells her to just go to sleep.
On monday morning she calls the police again. They come over she tells them the story, they write it down, tells her that they'll pass on the information and they'll patrol at night.
Apparently, what she and I have concluded, is that the person got scared and decided to return mail sometime late sunday night. We picked up our mail on Saturday and there was no mail on Sunday, so how we ended up with mail that wasn't ours on Monday before the mail had passed is beyond our understanding.
P.S. You know those envelopes that come with the 3 edges that need to be torn off? I found a small piece of one next to my mailbox on Monday. Trash pick up is on Tuesday, and i can't imagine it had been sitting around all this time, plus we don't generally open mail out by the mailbox.
HMMMMMMM
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Thursday, October 18, 2007
really cute story about kids
i've been working in a 4K classroom on and off this year. today while the kids were in center time, i go over by two boys who are playing with one of those Magna Doodles. these are 4 year old kids. the one (who is pretty bright and can write his name) is teaching the other one how to write his name. it was just so cute to hear him say, don't worry i can teach you.
More on Soccer
Like i have mentioned my boy is playing soccer for the town's rec center. he is in the 6 & 7 year old league. at practice today there were 2 teams on the field that we usually practice in, dressed up in their uniform. our coach just moved over to the other field instead. after about 30 minutes the other team that practices on the other half of the field shows up and the coach is not happy. he is pacing on the grass by the parking lot calling the rec center to find out why these teams are there playing there when that's the field that they practice on and blah blah blah. about 5 minutes later someboy from the rec center comes over and tells the 2 teams that they have to leave because of this. i go over cause i know a couple of the kids on the field and ask them if they had been able to finish their game. no, they say, and they would have been more than happy to stop their scrimmage if the guy had come over to them and said "hey we practice here now, how much longer are you going to be?"
the worst part of this was that the team scrimmaging today, had boycotted their game on saturday because the coach of the team that they were supposed to play is a real a$$h*ole.
and this is a 6&7 year old league. can you imagine when these kids are older??
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Boonies
OK so i live in this fairly sub-urban town. Yea we're outside of Charleston SC which has just about everything, but who the hell wants to drive 25-30 minutes to find a restaurant to eat. Some people might enjoy this, but i would love to get in my car drive to main street and find a place to eat. Well apparently my town is getting bigger, maybe it's because GOOGLE is opening up it's new data center just up the road. Anyway, i digress, we just got a Japanese restaurant. I looooooove it!!!!!
Just opened today and so we swung by afterschool to get something to eat. Now all we need is a Cheesecake factory and we're all set.
Saturday, October 13, 2007
Soccer
The boy is playing soccer and he had a game this past saturday. I did not accidentally kind of miss it like last week. He was plaing against his best bud from class who is a really good athlete. First quarter his buddy scores a goal. The boy sat out first quarter and goes in second quarter in Offense. His buddy goes in as goalie, which was great for us because now he couldn't score. The boy and the other 2 in the front line took the ball all the way to the goal, and in a moment of glory my son gets his foot on the ball, kicks it, and SCORES!!!!
OMG i am jumping up and down on the sideline, not sure if i actually saw that right and the boy runs to me with the biggest grin on his face, pumping his arms up and down. I was so proud.
Tuesday, October 9, 2007
total senior moment
this past week it rained all week and so soccer practice was cancelled. on saturday morning we're all sitting around in our pajamas. the girl is on the computer working on a book report, i'm reading the book she's doing the report on, the husband is reading the newspaper and the boy is watching cartoons. i put the book down and look at the time. it's 10:29 and i think out loud how strange it is that the coach hasn't called to cancel the game yet. i call the coach and can't get a hold of him. i call my friend to see if her coach has called, she says no. i look at the schedule and it's an 11 am game. in a matter of 5 minutes i showered, got his uniform on him and rallied everyone to get dressed. needless to say we got there at 11 oclock. the game had not been cancelled and it was a mudfest. i am such a dingbat!!
Saturday, September 8, 2007
Kids & Technology
It's sad to think that the things that we grew up with as normal are foreign ideas to my kids. My daughter wants to see HSM2 again but we were invited to a birthday party. My son figures he'd help his sister out and tells me to "Use that Recording System I have in my room". The VCR i ask him, "Yes, mommy, that thing".
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