I hate mail! (Crash!)
The Old Baguette did not generate the above sound by banging a pewter tankard on a table. See stage directions for "I Hate Men" in Kiss Me Kate. The Old Baguette didn't exactly intend the pun; she just noticed it. The sound was created when she tossed 3 catalogs all at once into her recycling. Yes, she is at last sorting through that stack of papers piled next to her computer desk. Most of the stack is junk that should have been recycled upon receipt. Why did she bring this junk upstairs to pollute her apartment? She cannot answer that question. She has found a few items that should have been dealt with upon receipt. They were buried in the junk. They were lost but now are found. The Old Baguette will have to deal with them ASAP. Why did she permit these important items to get lost in the first place? She cannot answer that question. A few items, stuff like manuals for users, she wants to keep, but she wants to be able to find them. Why didn't she file them away upon receipt? She cannot answer that question. So many questions without answers!
The Old Baguette was forced to envision her future. She will sit in the lobby with the other Old Baguettes and Crusty Rolls waiting for the mail person to arrive. That is one of the excitements of the day. Like the others, she will sort her mail on the spot, right then, right there. She will recycle the junk right away. She will bring the important stuff upstairs. Will she deal with what should be dealt with? Will she file what needs to be filed? She hopes she will.
I hate mail! (Crash!)
Out went more trash.
I agree with your mail comments 100%. My solution is to swear, cuss, and carry on high about it and my wife then takes care of it, finding dealing with the mail more pleasant than listening to me.
ReplyDeleteA guy at work once told the mail man that he is the garbage man in reverse, he brings the garbage rather than taking it away.
Another guy at work has a novel solution. He has a post office box at the post office. He goes every day and sorts through his mail, the bills and wanted mail is removed from the box. The junk he leaves in the box. It then accumulates and he is called down to the post office to remove it. He then cleans out his box, takes it to the desk and proceeds to have a somewhat staged altercation with the postal employees about junk mail. He leaves the pile on the desk storms out of the post office and then starts the cycle over again.
The Old Baguette recycled the junk upon receipt.
ReplyDeleteShe hasn't opened the mail she deemed important. Not yet.