"I was backing out of the garage when I heard a POP. Just what I needed, a flat tire before I even left the house. I finished backing out, and got out of the car to see which tire. I walked all the way around, but the tires looked okay. I couldn't figure out what I hit. We drove it Wednesday to the casino. Then I drove it over to my sheds (on Shackytown Boulevard!) to get some stuff loaded in it. And I came back and parked it, the same as usual. There's nothing there to run over. Nothing to fall off the garage wall.
I walked around the car again, looking under it. I found what popped. I had ordered a box of forms that I need for selling some of my stuff. You've ordered them for me before. You know they're free. But they were taking so long to get here, I was running out. My Pawn Shop Buddy give me some of hers when we was in Casino Town. I guess FedEx or UPS delivered my forms while we were gone on Saturday.
Apparently they set the box outside the garage door on the Acadia's side. So when I backed out, I run over it. Didn't hurt nothin', because it was just a stack of paper. But it crushed the box. I didn't see nothin' there when I come home on Saturday evening."
"I'd bet it was FedEx! They've done that before. I think they just pull up and throw it out. They don't even try to come to the door or put it on the porch. The UPS people bring it to the door and leave it. Nothing was by the garage when I came home Saturday. I guess they did it while we were inside later that evening. You know we don't look out every time the dogs bark."
I guess Hick is lucky it wasn't some fancy electronic gewgaw. Or a box of knives. Or a raft that self-inflates. At least this time FedEx left it at the right house, unlike some of Hick's medical supplies that they left at a house down the road.
Thank goodness it was not medical supplies. How in the world did his package get delivered that far from your place? I hope your neighbor brought it right over!
ReplyDeleteWe know better than to have actual prescriptions delivered! Even if they would come by the USPS, I don't trust mailbox thieves.
DeleteThis was a new mask for Hick's breather, I think. The lady looked us up in the phone book and left a message on our landline that she had Hick's package. I have no idea how it ended up at a house out on the county lettered highway. It wasn't even a neighbor! It was several miles away. Sometimes FedEx has left packages at a house over on the other gravel road, about a half mile away. They call and leave it on their porch for Hick to come get it.
I can hear when the package is thrown or tell from the picture that it was thrown. Sometimes, I have to call delivery and complain. They never listen. It is so annoying! At least, there was no damage done to car or merchandise.
ReplyDeleteYes, Hick's long-awaited forms are still usable, and A-Cad has no damage, and it didn't start a fire to burn down the garage and house! So there's that. Imagine if it had happened to somebody with a toddler. They might have had a heart attack fearing they had backed over their precious child.
DeleteThank goodness it was only a box of paper.
ReplyDeleteGood thing The Universe wasn't feeling especially cantankerous on this day!
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