Richard?

Monday, November 2, 2009 at 9:06 pm (everything else) (, , , )

If you were one of my neighbors, and if you had been out on your porch this evening at about 5:10 p.m., you would wondered what I found in my mailbox that caused such an outburst. But since you’re not my neighbor (presumably) and you didn’t hear the “WHOAAAAA!” that escaped my lips, here’s how it all went down.

Sometimes I find this guy…

mailbox_spider

… but fortunately he hasn’t been in there recently. That photo was taken on October 1, and soon after that, he disappeared.

Today I found five pieces of mail in my box, and although they were all business-size envelopes, I flipped through them all before I unlocked the front door and stepped inside.

I found…

* my personal property tax bill (don’t worry, it gets better).

mail_personal_property_tax

* a debit card for a joint account I recently opened at the credit union. No, it’s not with HIM. It’s actually with a married man. No joke. But don’t worry — he’s the treasurer and I’m the newsletter coordinator for the Missionary Support Team for some friends of ours, and we thought it would be wise to have two people’s names on the account.

mail_debit_card

* an IMPORTANT UPDATE about Medicare for a former renter of mine who is only a few years older than I am.

mail_medicare

* a special message from President Barack Obama.

mail_barack_obama

* and… a bill from the company that recently serviced my furnace — the item that made me say “WHOAAAAA!”

mail_excel_steel

6 Comments

  1. Wilmer said,

    Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 8:04 am

    Does Tim know about Richard?

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  2. r8chel said,

    Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 1:06 pm

    Wilmer: He does now! ;)

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  3. Laura said,

    Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 3:25 pm

    I’m disappointed that it appears that the president wrote you the same letter he wrote me!

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  4. r8chel said,

    Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 5:29 pm

    Laura: I didn’t even read it, but I’m sure it was very special…

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  5. Sarah D B said,

    Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 9:54 pm

    That’s quite a spider. A while back we had a small wasp nest under our mailbox. Occasionally they would crawl into the box as well. One day as I was getting the mail I thought, “One of these days I’m going to find a wasp in the mail when I unfold the newspaper from the letters.” I unfolded the paper. . . and there was a wasp! Somehow the fact that I had imagined it beforehand made it ten times worse–I screamed and dropped the mail in the lawn. I was glad no neighbors were present.

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  6. r8chel said,

    Friday, November 6, 2009 at 8:02 pm

    Sarah: Whatever you do, don’t post about the wasps on your blog. A few days after I posted this, the enormous spider from my mailbox (or one that looked just like it) showed up In. My. House. Fortunately it was already dead when I found it…

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