Mail box mystery
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Not meaning to brag, but our lot is large for an in-town lot. No way the flag could have ended up that far away. Plus, our neighbors are so rich that they have landscape maintenance people manicure their property with a fine-toothed comb. They would have found it years ago.Mermaid said:Someone doesn't like you, BR.I'd be very careful if I were you!
No, seriously. This is what happened and there's nothing sinister at all in it. The mail box smashers went on a rampage and pieces went flying. The next day your neighbor hires some landscapers to do their lawn. The workers see the missing tip of your maibox flag but they're busy digging and planting so the flag tip gets buried.
Fast forward ten years. That same landscape is getting pretty old so your neighbor hires landscapers again. They start digging and what should they find in the earth but your missing flag tip.
Your neighbor takes one look and says "Well, I know where THAT comes from." And he marches over to the most beat-up ratty old mailbox in the neighborhood--yours--and puts your missing piece in it, knowing that you will glue it back on and keep using the mailbox he wishes you'd replaced ten years ago. Something about bringing down the tone of the neighborhood, you know.
But thanks for the conjecture.
It is freaky and perplexing! I'm sure everything is o.k. - - but it will drive you crazy trying to figure it out!!
LOLOL!Kimmifunn said:
Could the flag piece have gotten stuck somewhere out of sight, like to the top of the interior, when it was first smashed? And when it was re-smashed, it fell down? That would be my first thought.
And, BR, for what it's worth, our mailbox, and our neighbors', were smashed recently too. I live outside the city limits (for now).
It's the same mentality as the "gentlemen" I saw tossing a possum onto a roof of a convenience store once. I asked them why the [heck] they were doing that, and they replied...not kidding here...."heh heh, because they're too stupid t' know how t' git down again! heh heh. " Nice. Congrats dudes, you're smarter'n a possum. And a mailbox too, I guess. (though that's debatable.)
And, BR, for what it's worth, our mailbox, and our neighbors', were smashed recently too. I live outside the city limits (for now).
It's the same mentality as the "gentlemen" I saw tossing a possum onto a roof of a convenience store once. I asked them why the [heck] they were doing that, and they replied...not kidding here...."heh heh, because they're too stupid t' know how t' git down again! heh heh. " Nice. Congrats dudes, you're smarter'n a possum. And a mailbox too, I guess. (though that's debatable.)
Maybe it's a student that I gave an F to years ago?gotothebeachmom said:I don't have a theory. My husband travels all the time and besides the usually, garbage disposal goes on the blink, garage door malfunctions, and random acts of people inviting me over for dinner I guess I just lead a dull life. Thank goodness! Maybe SHELLEY lives in your neighborhood and is using different tactics to scare the stew out of you!?! Maybe SJ and SS were right in an earlier post. Time to move. Your place sounds cursed.
Beach Runner said:
Kimmifunn said:
You didn't tell us you were going to OUT us as well!!!!!! Mermaid was the hit gull!
Yeah, my first thought, too. But then I remembered that in June, we were having an anniversary party and the mailbox was looking shabby. So I washed it down inside and out and repainted the post. The flag was totally not inside. And how could the broken flag that fell to the ground bounce back up on its own, open the mailbox door, and put itself back into the mailbox in a spot not detected by us for 10 years?katie blue said:
Good theory, though. Like I said, my first conjecture.
Kimmifunn said:
Hey Kimmi! That's supposed to be secret stuff! Geez do we have to start this process over now?!?