Sunday, May 11, 2003
TITLE: THE MOTHER'S DAY CARD SAGA!!!!!
I can't believe it. Of all years for my mother to get her mother's day card ... it would NEED to be this year!!!!!
The saga goes something like this: First ... about 3 weeks ago, I went to the Hallmark store and bought several cards that I had been needing to get. I then went to the Mother's Day card section, and read almost every card, and picked the NICEST card that they had there. I paid for my merchandise and went home. When I got home, I realized that I had taken the Mother's Day card and NOT THE ENVELOPE. (DUH!!) I wonder ... if the girl at the counter was pulling the cards out of the flap of the envelopes for the other cards I had purchased, and when she got to the Mother's Day card, WHY didn't she say to me, "Oh, did you not take an envelope on purpose?" Well, I hate shopping, so I refused to go back to the mall (where that Hallmark shop was located) to find out if I could get an envelope from them. UGH!!
Second: About 2 weeks ago, I found an equally nice card at Giant and picked it up while I was grocery shopping. I wanted to make sure that Mom got the card in plenty of time, so I made sure that it went in the mail about a week ago. I had taken it to school, and didn't have a return address stamp with me, so I hand-wrote my address in the top corner, and then wrote my mother's address and put the stamp on it, and mailed it in our main office. Done! (NOT!!)
Third: On Thursday, in my mailbox at home, was my Mother's Day card, "Return to Sender" and "No such street address." Double DUH!! I had mailed it to her street address, but MY town, state and zip code (it was in my head after writing my own address in the top corner!!) Can you believe that!? Well, I REALLY wanted my mother to get her card on time, and so I crossed out the wrong town, state and zip, and used black permanent marker to write the correct ones, and put a white label over the old, postmarked stamp. I decided to get up REALLY early on Friday morning (4:15 a.m.) to beat the rush hour traffic, I left my house by 5:15 a.m. and drove across town to the big post office "hub" at Merrifield. They can often get things to Buffalo over night, so I figured that if the card was in the first batch of mail, it might have a chance of making it to Mom in Saturday's mail. Maybe not!!
Finally: I just got home from church and some errands. I hadn't gone outside at all yesterday in the yucky weather, so I picked up my mail on the way in the house. Don't you know ... the card was in my mailbox again. AARRGGHHH!!!! This time, I can't figure out what was wrong, except that I hadn't crossed out the "return to sender" and "no such street" stamps on the front of the card. I give up!!
Mom - I love you!! There's a Hallmark e-card waiting for you in your e-mail. Enjoy!! I'll call you later!!
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