Drabble by Kevin Fagan for November 16, 2022

Millennials

Hope it’s not important!

A: find a mailbox. B: go to a post office. C: pass off to the younger, smarter brother.

You put it in the big metal box that sits on the side of the street. No not the one the homeless guys have built a fire in, in order to stay warm, or the one with the rotten banana peel hanging on the edge of the lid, the one with the picture of an envelope on it. And assuming you have the right postage on it, the letter will reach its destination, sometime in the next month.

It’s probably better to have him go to he Post Office & use the box INSIDE just to make sure. or maybe wait on the line & hand it to the clerk.

You’re expecting him to know how to do that, Ralph?

1) Buy a leather pouch to carry the letter. 2) Borrow a horse. 3) Ride like the wind Norm. 4) Deliver the letter.

Norm is like a computer. You have to explain everything.

We’ve come to this.

I love some of these tic-toc videos where parents ask their teenage children what some 80s items are and how they are used (like ‘dial-up’, yellow pages etc)

Where’s the Send button?

My mail usually consists of stuff addressed to “occupant,” “our neighbor at,” junk mail. If it is actually addressed to me, it normally is a bill or hawking Medicare Advantage plans.

Norm can’t tie his own shoes. Rethink that request you made.

Wonder what his IQ is?

Okay, then call him on my rotary dial phone.

Ralph, you should know better then to trust him with a complex task like that.

If there isn’t an “E” in front of that “mail”…it’s not happening.

The number of magazines my husband and I receive via the US Post Office regularly would apparently surprise many of you (cat magazines for me, boating related and technology for him, news for both of us). Paper is much easier on our eyes,

Throw it in a ravine like the postal carriers do.

It’s simple, Norm. Remove the wrapper with the nice sticker in the upper-right corner. Unfold the paper you find within. Scan and convert it to a PDF. (Be sure to scan the side that has writing on it.) Email it to the person named on the wrapper.