One more quick note before I head for the tropics:
I just heard this this morning.
Everybody knows about the vandals who drive around at night with a baseball bat, bashing rural mailboxes. They got my son, Sam, a couple of years ago. So he went to the Wal-mart and got two mailboxes. One large and one regular. He put one inside the other and poured the space between full of concrete. Then he put it up and they have been using it ever since. Night before last, the vandals struck. They found parts of a broken bat and no real damage to the mailbox. Then this morning, they found a note on their door that said "Don't open your mailbox."
Knowing that it was from the vandals, they called the police who came and opened the mailbox, finding nothing. The policeman said that it was very likely that somebody had a very sore arm.
I hope that is the end of the story, but I have to admit that I've enjoyed it so far.
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