OT Surprise Package

Lawn Ranger

OK, I'm standing around in my underwear upstairs this morning, when the doorbell rings. Nobody rings the doorbell at this hour! Turns out it's the mail lady with a package from State College Pa. My first thought is "why would Joe Paterno be sending me something". As I opened it...to my surprise... it's a box of wonderful sauces from "Gretl". What a surprise!!![p]If only the Forum ruled the world.... there would be much more love.....and everyone would eat better, too.[p]Mike[p]Thanks, Gretl

WooDoggies

Lawn Ranger,[p]Funny you should mention that. This afternoon I was standing outside in the wind and the cold next to the road replacing the mailbox that got nailed by some crazy kids and a baseball bat one night a couple months ago..... a mailbox I vowed I would not replace because I knew as soon as I replaced it, sure enough the crazy kids would come back and nail it again...... but had to replace because the door rusted off last Tuesday and my mail got wet and the mail lady laughed at me without knocking the inch-long ash off her cigarette.
I'm standing out in the cold attaching the new heavy duty plastic mailbox that will hopefully deflect a blow from a baseball bat better than a metal mailbox and hoping to finish up before the mail lady arrives to laugh at me again.
The mail lady does arrive, tho, and without a word hands me my mail and a triangular box from San Antonio, "thank you" I says, she nods her head without so much as a smile and without knocking the perpetual ash off her cigarette and pulls away.
I open the box on the spot and unwrap a custom LawnRanger pig tail flipper doodad with "WooDoggies" forever burned into the handle. "An early Christmas Present" it says. [p]Yep Mike, if the world could only be more like forum folk....[p]Thanks, mang.
John

Nature Boy

Vivid imagery is associated with that classic story by Dr. Woo. Having been to your place helps, but I could paint a picture from dem words. Nice. heeee![p]I hear them kids these days have a sharper instrument they use on the plastic mailboxes. May the force be with you, my friend. You might think you have outsmarted them, but I beg to differ. I still think a "decoy" concrete box might be the way to go. Or maybe just a lead lined anodized steel might do the trick.[p]Cold cobalt ribbons to you.
Chris[p]