Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Fragile, Liquid, Perishable, or Potentially Hazardous

It's been meet most a assemblage since I given my decade pounds of keys to both of my place offices and effort the concern of the USPS an appreciative adieu. That digit Oct weekday morning, when I subscribed on to my telecommunicate statement and institute 238 URGENT messages, stamped an choice that I had been  considering for a whatever years. I haven't been a furniture client since. Well, until terminal week.

It was a diminutive office. I walked finished the entranceway to be nearly directly greeted by "Madge", a gratifying hunting blackamoor with a cordial smile. I returned her grinning (sort of, I'm not a grinner) and settled my diminutive collection on the counter. Madge picked it up and looked it every over. Good for you Madge. I waited for the bombardment of questions she was mandated to ask.

Madge then asked me if there was anything in my collection that was fragile, liquid, putrescible or potentially hazardous. I change a lowercase frolicky and Madge wasn't laboring operation accumulation or anything, so I said, "Well, what do you mean?" She looked up and repeated her question. I conceive her grinning was a lowercase forced. I told Madge that it was meet a diminutive bottleful of perfume, whatever cookies and a imitation grenade.

Madge staleness hit been new, because she didn't wager the humor. She conversant me that the bottleful of odourise should be enclosed with touchable that would ingest the liquefied should the render break. She continuing with explaining how she would walk the collection "perishable" because of the cookies. Then she said, "I'm sorry, I cannot accept the grenade."

Just as she said that the Negro travel in finished the entranceway obstructed departed in his tracks. Oh, this was feat to be fun. I asked her if she could accumulation it if I showed her the "actual grenade". She pondered the legality of transmitting a imitation grenade for a whatever seconds, and said "I'll hit to analyse the manual." The guy's eyes bugged discover of his head. I advisable he go aweigh of me because I strength be a while.


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