My mom embarrassed me years ago when she called our small town post office and complained about slow package delivery. I gave the eulogy at mom ’ s memorial service, and I told the mortifying story at the chapel. Respectful laughter filled the room. However, embarrassment doesn ’ t bother you when you ’ re dead in the grave and maybe that ’ s the lesson here today. Mom loved to send packages to me in Arizona. She often mailed pencils, recipe clippings, bars of soap, cereal, odds and ends that were meaningful to her. Mom never understood that her mailings to a hick town in the west take a heck of a lot longer than it does in Chicago. I got umpteen phone calls from her before any shipment arrived and she would ask impatiently: “ Did you get my package yet? ” It was about six years ago when retrieving my mail, Toni, my favorite clerk shouted to me across the room from the front desk, “Your mother called me yesterday. She...
OH FUNNY! 2 feet of snow. HA! HA! And we DO get hurricanes so we would say the opposite. "At least we don't get blizzards. At least we don't get blizzards!" LOL!
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Kim
Cute post, Mary. Our daughter-in-law is from Maine, but she and our son lived in the south several years after they were first married. God took them back to Maine and two years ago, the last picture you have on your post today was kept on Ellen's facebook page! ;)
ReplyDeleteThanks for the chuckles.
Oh Mary this is tooo funny! I would have loved to be able to drive around and gets pics of all the creative things people have done out of snow! It has been soo amazing to see!
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ReplyDeleteMary,That is "Piles of Smiles".
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~Jo
LazyonLoblolly
OK, Mary - I'm starting to feel a little guilty here in California.
ReplyDeleteThe two feet of snow cracked me up.
Thanks for always making me :)
GOD BLESS!
That is SnOw funny! LOL!
ReplyDeleteAnd ditto what Kim said! I'll take the hurricanes; at least you can get away from them, and they don't hang around for months.
Have a JESUS-filled day! ^i^
Funny....especially the two feet of snow. Linda J.
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ReplyDeleteThank you.
In particular, that first photo was a hoot.