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Re: ciel,
Asking the name would be an excellent idea.
The thing about manhole covers does point out how ridiculous things can get.
I have found that the best solution to addressing such problems is to ignore them.
Unless you can make a good joke of them.
posted by
Jack_Flash
on June 16, 2009 at 3:15 AM
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You might ask her name...
That solves the issue of needing a generic title. Unfortunately, the word 'postal' has also come to have alternate meanings: Many postal people don't actually work for the post office.
There was the township somewhere some years ago that spend $20,000, so I heard, replacing the manhole covers with personhole covers. I suppose someone could have a problem with anything-hole, too, so they would have to spend more to change them to person-opening covers. But that sounds like a version of a can-opener, and that's not good, unless we are getting into zombie movies, or something.
posted by
Ciel
on June 15, 2009 at 10:01 PM
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kekeke You're a hoot!
posted by
Suzyn
on June 7, 2009 at 8:36 PM
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Re: Azur
You needn't worry about getting me fantasizing. I am able to do that with with or without intentional help. Often people have no idea that they are doing any more than walking down the aisle of the produce section.
posted by
Jack_Flash
on June 4, 2009 at 7:26 AM
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Re: How about mail beauty?????? Don't call so loud, call her in a humming voice
A humming voice? You don't think that would be suggestive enough to precipitate sexual harassment claims? It does, however, sound like a rather interesting approach. If it worked, it could be quite delightful.
Mail Beauty? I find Mail Queen a bit more interesting. It puts together the two concepts of Mail Queen and Male Queen. That adds a whole new dimension of ambiguity to the entire matter, which makes it much more open to misinterpretation. A high level of ambiguity, combined with sensual and wishful misinterpretaion, can place a level of arousal into a situation that is hard to match. It can even lead to a very successful, frequently mutual, conclusion to an encounter.
I doubt that you will disagree on the need for more mutual conclusions.
posted by
Jack_Flash
on June 4, 2009 at 7:19 AM
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Re: Re: A woman who delivers
I had a reply worked out for you but I think it might get you to fantasizing.
posted by
Azur
on June 3, 2009 at 6:08 AM
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How about mail beauty?????? Don't call so loud, call her in a humming voice
............lol, I can't just stop laughing............
posted by
Star5_
on June 2, 2009 at 8:12 PM
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Re: hardi
A new word might be in order, but do you have any idea of how difficult it is to make a major change in a language? There would be protest marches, screeching, yelling, and one finger salutes in the streets, debates on TV, and the whole works.
I hate to say it, but I am quite burned out on that crap. Maybe it is best to simply leave everything alone and see what happens.
posted by
Jack_Flash
on June 2, 2009 at 5:50 PM
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Re: sam,
Mine have generally been men also. However, lately there have been a few who were females. The one I had was particularly distracting in her postal pants. I find it quite pleasing that equality has invaded the postal services, but the terminology has become something of a problem to me. It was ''mail man'' for so long that it seems almost sacreligious to say ''mail woman.'' I addition to being something that it is difficult to say, it seems completely unnatural to say ''mail woman.'' It sounds too much like ''male woman,'' and that is, quite simply, a frightening thought.
posted by
Jack_Flash
on June 2, 2009 at 5:40 PM
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Re: I just call her the mail lady. LOL
Well, shel, that sounds ok, but I never know what to call a female. If they are any age up to my own I refer to them as girls. If they get down to the ages under 30 I still call them girls, but I think of them as babes. (Unless they are super ugly. Then I don't know what to call them. Of course, that is true of any real Ugly, be they male, female, old, young, or ''other''). If their age exceeds my own I refer to them as women. Ladies is a term that is fine with me, but I have found that some females consider it to be offensive--a chauvinistic term.
Perhaps you can help me. What is the pronoun of preference for the majority of those among us who are of the feminine gender? My preference is to offend no one on the basis of race, creed, color, gender, sexual inclination, and all of that jazz. Do you have clues I can use?
Naturally, I realize that your input will be personal opinion, but perhaps it will be helpful to me in the development of my own wisdom.
posted by
Jack_Flash
on June 2, 2009 at 5:29 PM
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Really tough. A new word could be the answer: like lawyer, actor, doctor... maybe we should call them
mail carriers or couriers.
posted by
hardilaziz
on June 2, 2009 at 5:17 PM
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A postal person! I really don't know, mine have always been men! sam
posted by
sam444
on June 2, 2009 at 1:48 PM
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I just call her the mail lady. LOL
posted by
shelly_b
on June 2, 2009 at 1:40 PM
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Re: Azur
Do you suppose that exceeding the bounds of sexual propriety with a postal worker is a Federal crime?
posted by
Jack_Flash
on June 2, 2009 at 1:02 PM
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Re: A woman who delivers
That is certainly a very thought provoking comment. Especially in view of my mail female. Don't get me to fantasizing. I could easily get arrested.
posted by
Jack_Flash
on June 2, 2009 at 12:49 PM
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A woman who delivers
posted by
Azur
on June 2, 2009 at 12:28 PM
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