Tag: delivery

• The Short End of the Stick!

  Each day when I am at work, I silently thank my co-worker for wanting the larger route, the one with fewer dirt roads, but much more mail, for every day my route appears to be easy.

  No matter what day of the week, when we both arrive, I have less, which doesn’t allow me to utter one complaint, for each day He has it harder than I.

  It is amazing that this simple fact that his lot in life is harder than mine leaves me no room to complain, which also sets the tone for the day.

  How lucky am I to have this little route.

  What an awesome way to transition back into the working world, feeling like you are the lucky one each day.

  This lightness carries me through the day, no matter what I have to deliver, he has more, no matter how long it took me it will take him longer.

  He willingly gave up this route for a variety of reasons, yet now he is looking back at with different eyes.

  You truly don’t know what you got til its gone… but I am fully aware of what I have and each and every day and even a few times a day I give thanks to the Gods that be, that something within him wanted him to leave this route to me.

  I am thrilled to be left holding the short end of the stick!

  October 15, 2010

  delivery, easy, grateful, lady, love, Mail, route, rural, work

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• The Lady and Her Jeep

  I was shocked to learn that I had joined a new group, a group of which I knew nothing about, and still don’t, but feel I will learn as I go.

  As I drove my Jeep across the Bridge in town, an oncoming Jeep spotted me and gave me a friendly wave and smile…I waved back, pondering who was that?

  My second wave was as I was traveling along the highway, a white Wrangler waved and then it dawned on me, all Jeep Wrangler drivers wave at each other.

  Sure enough a dark green one spotted me and he too waved, then more and more.  It is the oddest thing and funny to be part of a group that I didn’t even know about. 

  I wave back, but don’t have a clue what the agenda is of this group…what have I joined?

  I wonder if my yellow light on top or the fact that I drive from the right puts me in a special sub group within the group, if delivering mail is a bonus or a demerit?

  What is the common bond between the Wrangler owners, what character trait or lifestyle would be a common thread?  Do I really fit in?

  It’s an unexpected feature and one that I am not sure how to use or express.

  Perhaps I own a Jeep but I don’t match the persona one usually has when owning one, I landed here by accident. 

  Yet my jeep will look as it has had a lot of fun mud bogging when I return some days off the route.

  It feels like I joined an adventure group unbeknownst to me…and what is scary is this mail route will become an adventure depending up on the weather.

  Again maybe everyone knows but me that by owning a Jeep Wrangler my life will take me on exciting rides.

  Wow…no wonder they smile and wave…’hope you are tough enough to ride’ and I do too! 

  We will see if my spirit matches where this jeep will take me, do I have the right stuff? 

  I am thinking the confident get a jeep, and in my case I need the jeep to be confident…confident I can make it through the rain, sleet and snow and dark of night to deliver the mail. 

  Maybe this group isn’t for the faint of heart…but will make the faint of heart strong. 

  I guess this group is for me. 

  I will rebuild the confidence I lost, the strength that seems fleeting at times, the endurance against all kinds. 

  The Lady and her Jeep.

   

   

   

   

   

   

  October 10, 2010

  adventures, confidence, delivery, fitting in, group, Jeep Wrangler, Mail, self, The Lady, tough, weather

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