Post office closed.
Oops. That means old Mildred’s rent check will get delivered one day too late to avoid the 25.00 late fee, which will mean she cuts back on groceries next month, so she can still pay her utility bill and drug co pays. It means a lot of rent checks may get there late, and lots of 25.00 late fees no one here can afford. But hey, they should have sent them in earlier. After all, they knew it was a Holiday weekend, right?
Uh oh, old Roy’s prescription drug order from the on line pharmacy was due to day and he’s all out of his asthma rescue inhaler? Well, he’ll be fine till tomorrow, I’m sure.
Nope, no hot meal for the Meals on Wheels folks today, either, which means the last hot meal these old folks had was four days ago, on Friday, before the New Years weekend. Let’s hope they all had some food handy that they can actually reach and prepare for themselves, huh? Besides, they really shouldn’t expect to be fed on weekends, holidays or National Days of Mourning, now should they?
National Priorities, you know.
Clearly it is of utmost national priority to insure that a very old, frail ex President, now dead of natural causes, is honored with not one, not two or three or four, but five full days of taxpayer funded pomp and circumstance.
It’s only right. He was a very important rich old man who was our President, and he certainly did earn every bit of this. After all, he made very good use of all the hundreds of helpers he had and he did his job as best he could.
All those other very important, badly overworked and underpaid public servants and politicians certainly also deserved this chance to be seen on National TV in attendance at such “majestic event” that was, according to one pundit, downright “goose pimpling”.
Meanwhile, old Mildred, whose only (hardly-worth mentioning) contribution to America was raising four sons, all tax paying citizens and veterans, while caring for her disabled husband till his death) was no doubt distracted from her selfish worries by watching the majestic, pompous circumstances on her 13 inch TV.
And Old Roy probably breathed easier while watching it too, being an old WWII vet and still so very moved by flags and uniforms. I’m certain they do not mind their small sacrifice to honor this great old dead President.
Speaking of sacrifice, I just heard we’re going to be hearing that word from our current President soon, as he unveils his new “Surge and Accelerate” plan for his war.
Someday, there will be another National Day of Mourning for this President too, and no doubt it will be another magnificent, goose-pimpling event for our grandkids and great grandkids to appreciate.
That is, providing we all survive the next two years under this particular “President” who, despite Keith Olbermans powerful admonition to the contrary, actually DOES believe he “owns this country” and clearly has has every intention to do as he damned well pleases with it.
it is absurd and elitist that voting day is not a national holiday
I keep thinking how absolutely horrible it is that his family has been put through this for 2 frickin weeks. Personally, I am so sick of it all, what little I did think of the man has vanished.
As for closing the post office. . .since I was one who has been there and done that, and you might think we all would enjoy an extra day off work, we dreaded these things, just as we got very little joy about being off on holidays. The mail keeps moving. It doesn’t stop regardless of what day it is or who is being hailed as King. So the behind the scene workers have been working all through this and the post offices are stuffed to the gills with mail to sort and deliver. The over the weekend 2 day stack-ups are plenty enough, but 4 days is being buried!! There will be no extra help to get through all that mail. There will be overtime a plenty so that carriers can pack their 50-70 pound bags a few extra hours, in the dark, in cold icy weather and slippery sidewalks, making their 800-1100 stops each day.
The clerks inside will be hosted to unending long lines of angry customers who didn’t realize the Post Office was closed and made a futile trip on Tuesday. Or knew about the closure, but their business was open and running and they had postal business they needed to do. They will work overtime too in order to help get more mail sorted and into the post office boxes and work up all the mail that needs forwarding or returning as undeliverable.
No, there was no joy in postalville the day after a holiday, let alone a day after a four day break.
A lot of inconvenience for a lot of folks, but of course their needs could hardly be that important when we are winding up 2 frickin weeks of this pomp and nonsense.
These people are just too much. . .I can’t take much more of them.
I hear ya, scribe.
Yes, I know I was exaggerating about it being 2 weeks, but it has been 7 mind numbing days. . .it feels like a month!
not exagerating. He died early in the morning Monday before last. The orgy has entered its second week. Wretched excess.
I agree. Why can’t they just do it in the usual 3 days? Enough already…and there’s still another service on Thursday. WTF?
It’s flat out insanity, but since it’s a “Republican” Prez who died, while this conniving, unethical piece of poop administration is in power, you can bet it has some underlying, exploitive, covert political/PR rationale.
What other words are there to descibe a sense of total, adulderated, and simply massive .. DISGUST?? I need some bigger ones.
I think at this point it is anything to try to distract the people from the business at hand, Iraq, and the new Dem lead congress. Bushy had to try to steal any attention away from the huge Elephant sitting on the coffee table. Since they control the media, you can bet it will be more of the same as days go by. Anything to shift the attention away from our very real crisis and what needs to be done about them.
As Madman said, this excess is inexcusable.