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Pastimes : Ya'll have a GooGoo Cluster & take a load off

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To: E'Lane who wrote (11224)	1/30/2007 4:35:45 PM
From: Honor First	Read Replies (3) of 26417

Today was an interesting day. I awakened to find out that almost eleven years in this home, our mailbox had been knocked over. We are not in the line to have it knocked over by speeding cars, nor have the usual graduating students, students experimenting with beer, students doing pranks for the heck of it ever touched our mailbox. We have had mailboxes down all around us and across the street and most have been deliberate. Sigh.... Our nicely stained deep cedar post that had been restained several years ago became a fallen victim, finally having to meet the earth in an ungracious manner. Not a really bad word escaped. I just wondered 'why'? I checked up the block and we were the only ones. Ok... yes, I did pray about it... I started to pray about the person who did it coming forth... like I believed that one... maybe that's why I cut off in the middle of the prayer - if I was going to pray I had to believe it first... I became interested in the market and then someone called and it was for me. I then called our daughter to ask her where she had purchased her mailbox. I wanted something wood or deep bronze to go with the house and not fancy... while we were joking the doorbell rang and it fell to Joe to answer... I was trying to save him answering for he is the one who always gets caught now with the J.W. ladies :) Too late, he answered. I remained on the phone and shortly thereafter Joe came back up to say Katie had come by. Katie who? Katie who knocked over our mailbox. :) Yepper ... around seventeenish and actually showed up. She walked down to our home from her home. Joe said she started to apologise and the more she talked the more the tears started to come. She told him she was on her way to school when she did it. She also told him her Dad would call tonight; she took our number and she knelt down on the cement to try to write her name and telephone number on a small scrap of paper. Have you ever tried to write on cement? We have a clear number however the last name is undecipherable :) It makes no difference. To actually have someone show up to accept responsibility and to try her best to apologise took a lot of courage. Whether she did it on her own or if her Mom sent her down I have no idea. It doesn't make any difference. It was a reflection on the type of family they are and a Very Good one. Good Heavens... Joe felt so strongly for her distress I think if he'd been me he would have had tears too. :) What happens from here remains to be seen. Our little mailbox is sitting on the cedar that was around the mailbox walling off a little flower area. The postman actually delivered our mail. The ground is frozen so it will be a bit before we install new... ROFLOL... that's OK... the previous people across the street had had their mailbox knocked down and it sat for WELL over half a year there... Joe doesn't intend to try and break that record <wink> Do you think she was on a cell phone? The streets weren't icy. That's our guess! LOL...

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