... as all of your words will be instantly changed into Hindi script: सई?
I saw two- not one, but two- mythical creatures today.
I went to the Post Office today to buy stamps. Why, I wonder, does the Little Rock post office miss out on all the wonderful advances in letter-sending technology that the last 30 years have brought? Like machines that sell individual stamps, places to weight and send a letter by yourself, places to purchase stamps with a credit or debit card? Places that have been standard in post offices in other places since I was a child? I have 12 faux-gold dollar coins now as a result of buying a book of stamps. These are the most godawful looking coins I've ever seen. There have to be casino tokens that are more dignified looking. Yep, trickle-down effects of 6 years of shitty government. AND they are doing away with stamp vending machines by 2009. I read it in the NYTimes, but there was also a small article in the Dem-Gaz. How perfectly awful these people are.
Anyway, I was the only person in the lobby (it was after five) and was approved by a well-dressed woman who asked me if the post office would just deliver her piece of mail, which happened to be something to do with unemployment benefits (and had obviously been sent to her) if she just dropped it in the box. I tried to tactfully describe the concept of mail. As I was leaving, I saw her get into...a Cadillac. Yes! I have seen it! The mythical Reagan welfare queen! Although really it was a woman who couldn't find a job for a little while, I imagine. And was unfamiliar with "mail."
The second mythical creature I saw was Ginger Beebe. It's the second time that I've seen the Guv talking with kids by the fence at the governor's mansion, but this time he brought his wife. Yeah, fuck Huckabee.
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i did that same thing with the stamp vending machine a while back. i was angry at first because i needed that cash, but as it turned out i used all of the stamps and i enjoy the dollar coins.
i bet you went to the downtown post office, didn't you? you need to go the bourgeois post office next to the bourgeois kroger.
"Ginger Beebe"? That does have a mythical ring to it, especially if you say it all as one word. I still haven't seen those dollar coins, but I'm looking forward to it.
Why the fuck would they get rid of the stamp vending machines?! I love those! I'm just sort of a sucker for vending machines in general. But then I also bitch about the dehumanizing mechanization of society and that kind of thing, so I guess that's sort of hypocritical.
Lame!
I wholeheartedly agree!
with the robot.
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