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aliwishes-
If I live that long. :) Thanks mom!
posted by
IsSanityNear
on December 3, 2004 at 9:33 AM
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children, you keep children?
As an experienced grandma, previously recruited as a mother, but promoted! I can assure you that the drooling, banged up, glitter covered little people who live in your closets will one day surprise you by random acts of kindness, goodness and totally unexpected good manners. Are there worse things than little people springing out of their closets when you are showing an American house to foreign visitors? Or what about little people who jump rectlessly on their beds only to fly off and cut their lips wide open, just like you predicted it would happen? What about a son who just can't be rushed, regardless of your impatience, and when shuffling back from the car with the keys to the house door gets an excited moment (when you finally yell, 'just throw them!') and yes, manages to throw them on the house roof...only to look at you with concern and inquire, 'should I go up and get them?' Insanity, huh! You have years and years ahead of you, you can still write, you can still spell, you haven't started calling your little people by the dog's name... you're fine! Matter of fact, you sound like a mother to me, you'll make a really good grandma, some day!
posted by
aliwishes
on December 3, 2004 at 9:03 AM
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innkeepersdaughter
lol. like i said, i love the rednecks! :)
posted by
IsSanityNear
on December 2, 2004 at 6:26 PM
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I have the superbox...
at the back of my house...and the car on the front lawn. Red neck
and I get all the other redneck's garbage...
posted by
theinnkeepersdaughter
on December 2, 2004 at 5:49 PM
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I hate spiders
That about sums up my feeling for anything that lives in a mailbox...
posted by
IsSanityNear
on December 2, 2004 at 4:57 PM
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Hopefully the spiders in mine
scare off the robbers - they scare me
posted by
beachbelle
on December 2, 2004 at 4:39 PM
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lol
You're house is the neighborhood billboard then! lol. I love rednecks, we have a family of them who thinks that cars
belong on the front "lawn"... niiiiiice.
posted by
IsSanityNear
on December 2, 2004 at 2:56 PM
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suo-
I am glad you and i share a love for cultivating plants, lol, my house is where green things come to die!! If you write "no junk mail" the postal guy won't put crap in your letterbox (there i go dropping my Australian again, tee hee)? That's crazy! I wish I could do that, but that would just cause the mailman to die laughing as he stuffed that crap in my mailbox!
posted by
IsSanityNear
on December 2, 2004 at 2:55 PM
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ISN, I also have the "superbox" mailbox. The plus for me is that it is actually in my yard. The bad thing is that it is actually in my yard. For some reason the rest of the rednecks on my block think that stuffing their junkmail in the tiny gap between the letter boxes and the frame is the best way to deal with it. So I get all thier unwanted mail blown up against my fence and in my yard. Not to mention all the poorly attached advertisments for lawn care and bellydancing lessons that become untaped at the box, but magically the stick on the tape reasserts itself just in time to adhere to my siding. Arrrrrgggghh!
posted by
MerryAnne
on December 2, 2004 at 1:40 PM
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ISN
Good Morning!!
My goodness....you poor thing! I had no idea there were such things as community letter boxes? The only time I have ever seen anything such as you describe are in the front of blocks of units of town houses which are gated....then and only then have I seen a bank of anonymous looking shoeboxes with locks. At our old house (the one we have just got a contract on....yippee!) our letter box could be what caused the house to take 6 months to sell! It was a freestanding green wooden one with a little flap at the back to open and retrieve mail...and a slot at the front and also a little sloped 'roof' under which you could supposedly fit parcels and newspapers and such. It had our number clearly displayed and had a "no junk mail" sign on the front. This is all well and good....however, it tilted so precariously sideways, backwards or forwards, one would think it had gotten stuck into all the red wine advertised on the brochures for free wine which were obviously not considered 'junk mail'! It was also partially obscured by some type of bush which was intermittently bare of leaves....so letterbox could be found in there somewhere....or so full of leaves that passersby could drive around our cul-de-sac for hours wondering where number 16 was as our tilting green letterbox camouflaged itself out of sight!
At our new house, we have a squat, square, brick letterbox with a planter box next to it....which held a live bush when we arrived, however I fear for its life now that we have arrived to 'take care of it.' This letterbox has no lock either, but it also lacks a 'no junk mail' sign and as a result, the slot for mail is usually so clogged with leaflets and catalogues that our mail has to sit forlornly on top of the letterbox, hoping it isn't blown away by the wind before we come out to check our haul. I really must put one of those signs on the front....perhaps after I paint that ceiling at the other house!
posted by
suomynona
on December 2, 2004 at 1:28 PM
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