STOCK MARKET WATCH - Wednesday, 22 February 2012

[kickysnana]

44. Things happen they usually get resolved.

When we first moved into this low income senior building in 1996 about 75% were original tenants who came in 1980. That made for a whole lot of over 85's here. Some were grumpy, some were a bit loopy and almost all thought they were right because of seniority. People would start gathering about 12:30pm for the mail that arrived about an hour later. Somebody who lived in the front of the building would start a telephone tree so there were a lot of people standing around while the mail was being sorted. The regular mail person took it in stride. Substitutes felt they were in hell.

One summer day our regular mail man was on vacation for a week and the substitute arranged to meet another mail carrier in our parking lot about 11:30am to go to lunch. There were a few people who didn't handle change well and that mail truck parked in our driveway with no mailman inside incensed three people, two gals and a guy then confronted the mailman when he arrived. Words ensued. The supervisor was called and our building manager had to apologize to the mail carrier (evidently they are our keepers) or we would have to get our mail at the post office until further notice. Now that incensed a whole lot of folks here because there was no swearing or threats of violence and the people involved were about 2% of the population here and nobody sent them. So some complaints were escalated to the Postmaster General. Nothing more happened. Our regular mailman came back and all was well. Someone said that the supervisor was retiring the next month and I guess that was good enough for the folks who had nothing better to do than stage a riot over a premature mail truck in our parking lot.