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On Monday I was doing my walk and came across somebody's keys still in their front door. This happens a lot more regularly than you'd think, and always makes me chuckle.
So I knock on her door (an old woman lives here, it's a row of bungalows that old people inhabit) and there's no answer. I try her neighbour and she says "Yes she sleeps in, won't hear you knocking". So I explain the situation and she agrees to take the keys for her neighbour, I write a little note on a card and pop it back through sleeping woman's door and continue with my day.
Yesterday I come to the bungalow-row again and on sleeping woman's door is a card taped to the door with "Postman!" on it.
I open it and it's a thank you card, effusive with praise and telling me she's left a bottle of wine for me in the bin cupboard for my trouble.
I think that's the 1st time I've been the recepient of a random act of kindness and it made me smile the rest of the morning.
And I realised, of all the people I see and chat to during my walk - it's the old people that always stop and ask how things are etc.
Most other people just look down and hurry past, yet the older generation always make time, even if it's just a nod and "Morning Postie".
I think it's a completely different generation of values and it'll be a real shame when there are no more left and the old people consist of the Chantals and Liams, because they'll just be angry stupid pensioner.
So I knock on her door (an old woman lives here, it's a row of bungalows that old people inhabit) and there's no answer. I try her neighbour and she says "Yes she sleeps in, won't hear you knocking". So I explain the situation and she agrees to take the keys for her neighbour, I write a little note on a card and pop it back through sleeping woman's door and continue with my day.
Yesterday I come to the bungalow-row again and on sleeping woman's door is a card taped to the door with "Postman!" on it.
I open it and it's a thank you card, effusive with praise and telling me she's left a bottle of wine for me in the bin cupboard for my trouble.
I think that's the 1st time I've been the recepient of a random act of kindness and it made me smile the rest of the morning.
And I realised, of all the people I see and chat to during my walk - it's the old people that always stop and ask how things are etc.
Most other people just look down and hurry past, yet the older generation always make time, even if it's just a nod and "Morning Postie".
I think it's a completely different generation of values and it'll be a real shame when there are no more left and the old people consist of the Chantals and Liams, because they'll just be angry stupid pensioner.
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Buh?
Is everyone a postman on here?
Might be why I'm still waiting for a CD.
>:(
Is everyone a postman on here?
Might be why I'm still waiting for a CD.
>:(
I am pretty sure he has a record he has been arrested loads of times. Hopefully he wont deliver to my house :S
If he lives across the street from you, he wouldn't deliver to your area.
When you say reputation, has he got a record? If so, you can get him sacked on the spot as we can't employ anyone with a criminal record.
When you say reputation, has he got a record? If so, you can get him sacked on the spot as we can't employ anyone with a criminal record.
I don't have much faith in the postal service at the moment. They have just employed one of the boys who lives across the street from me and has a huge reputation for stealing. We get DVDs delivered all the time, if they start going missing im pretty sure i know where they have gone.
Postmen shouldn't be stopping to talk or help out old people they should be bringing me my parcels.
Was very nice of you to do that back in the day when I had my paper round i did a similar thing, and got rewarded with my tip at xmas. I have come across one or 2 nice townies that said thank you and asked politely for the time, I’d burn them little less than their brethren.
Was very nice of you to do that back in the day when I had my paper round i did a similar thing, and got rewarded with my tip at xmas. I have come across one or 2 nice townies that said thank you and asked politely for the time, I’d burn them little less than their brethren.
I always hand in wallets and stuff, but it's not because I hope for a reward.
I always talk to the postmen I know. And I'm not old.
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I always talk to the postmen I know. And I'm not old.
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munn wrote:
> Postmen seem to be really nice people it appears.
> I remember when I was younger, the postman would walk down teh path
> in snowy weather then make sure not to make any more footsteps by
> walking over his own.
Not the case with my postman. He's a complete prat. Several times now he's just left parcels outside the front door when we're not in to recieve them. We don't live in a high crime-rate area, but leaving sometimes expensive items in full view of everyone is way out of order.
If he ever has the sense not to do this, then he doesn't leave it in the back garden or anything, he doesn't bother at all. This means a trip into town to collect it from the post office.
> Postmen seem to be really nice people it appears.
> I remember when I was younger, the postman would walk down teh path
> in snowy weather then make sure not to make any more footsteps by
> walking over his own.
Not the case with my postman. He's a complete prat. Several times now he's just left parcels outside the front door when we're not in to recieve them. We don't live in a high crime-rate area, but leaving sometimes expensive items in full view of everyone is way out of order.
If he ever has the sense not to do this, then he doesn't leave it in the back garden or anything, he doesn't bother at all. This means a trip into town to collect it from the post office.
If I'm walking with anyone - lad or lass - I let them go first if I open the door.
When I was doing some training the other day, the guy I was training with kept opening the door for me and letting me go first. He was only 18, at first it was kinda sweet, but after we went through the 10th door that hour it got a bit anoying.
cookie monster wrote:
> Ive found that if i hold a door open for someone im more likely to get
> a "Thank you" from a younger person than from an older
> person, but then this isnt a topic about manners.
I pensioner moaned at me once because I didn't hold the door open for someone.
Errr, the person was still buying their stuff when I left through the door ()I was in a shop), but she walked quickly and the door was still closing when she got to it.
I should have punched the guy.
I hold teh door open sometimes in shopping centres for someone, then about 20 people rush through without saying thankyou, but Ican't let go because it would shut on someone.
It annoys me somewhat awful.
> Ive found that if i hold a door open for someone im more likely to get
> a "Thank you" from a younger person than from an older
> person, but then this isnt a topic about manners.
I pensioner moaned at me once because I didn't hold the door open for someone.
Errr, the person was still buying their stuff when I left through the door ()I was in a shop), but she walked quickly and the door was still closing when she got to it.
I should have punched the guy.
I hold teh door open sometimes in shopping centres for someone, then about 20 people rush through without saying thankyou, but Ican't let go because it would shut on someone.
It annoys me somewhat awful.
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