Posted by ScottyHOMEy on January 15, 2009 at 12:46:13 from (70.105.226.211):
In Reply to: Oh this is funny posted by the tractor vet on January 15, 2009 at 10:15:52:
Two recollections.
Back when I was supervising letter carriers in Bangor, ME, it was the retirees who kept their walks clear so their carrier would have a prayer of gettin' to their mailbox. Meantime, back at the office, my phone's ringin' off the hook with calls from perfectly healthy young folks hollerin' about their carrier walkin' right by their unshoveled walks.
Then there was the time in NYC where we had three storms, all good'ns, every other day over five days. Our apartment looked down on West End Avenue. Across the street the snow had fallen and drifted in so that the row of parked cars looked like one one white hump between the shoveled sidewalks and what the plows had thrown up against the parked cars. So it comes a mild sunny Sunday. Sun shinin' on the wet pavemnet, snow meltin' everywhere. Mind, folks in that neighborhood of 10 and twelve-story apartment buildings don't have snow shovels. I look out and see a fella start in from the street side to dig his car out, armed with one of those little steel shovels with a two-foot piece of broomstick for a handle, like you give a 3-yr-old grandkid so he can "help" in the garden. So he starts in to diggin' and I start in to watchin'. He dug long enough that I went off to find other things to do, but would come back to check on him now and again. After quite a while, maybe an hour, it looked like he might be gettin' close, so I went and got a beer and a box of Cheezits and pulled a chair up to the window.
I'd had a thought in the back of my mind, but I was kinda rootin' for the guy, so I tried not to actually think it. He had a nice little path dug in. He finally got up close and started to brush snow off the hood into the notch he'd just shoveled out.
Well, you've never seen such contortions and thrashin' out of a grown man unless he'd just walked into a swarm of hornets. Before it was all over, he'd flung his little toy shovel all the way across the avenue so that it bounced off the side of outr building.
All that work and he got in there to find out it wasn't his car.
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