By Robert Darnell [Date unknown]
It was ten o'clock in the morning and just as Jerre was going out the door for a workout, the postman came.
He had a letter from Becky up at Camp Arnold and Becky said that the food was terrible and that she was hungry. Not really, but she wasn't eating much. Jerre thought, "Oh my, I really ought to send her something to nibble on even though it's against the camp rules." She decided to go down to Jumbo's and get some snacks to mail.
At Jumbo's she got some Pringles and squirt can of cheese. They were things that she thought could be mailed to camp without being noticed. She brought the stuff home to wrap it for mailing.
She called the Post office then to get the requirements for wrapping food for mailing. They told her it had to be sealed with stick 'em on tight -- no break 'em tape which she did not have any of. Scotch tape would not do.
She went ahead and wrapped the package intending to go after the tape a little later.
Then she decided to make some blonde brownies to mail the next day. After she made the brownies with subsequent mess, she started to clean up. She opened a package of new rubber gloves to use while cleaning up, but found that they were both for left hands.
Jerre wouldn't clean up without the gloves and wouldn't leave the mess so she had to run down and exchange the gloves.
She finally got the mess cleaned up and the package wrapped so she piled everything on the table including her purse while she changed clothes to go back to the store for the stick 'em on tight -- no break 'em tape, and then to the post office to mail the package.
Then for some reason all the stuff she piled on the table fell off onto the floor. This sort of rattled her so she took everything out to the car and locked the house doors, but she left all her keys on the table. She was locked out -- no car keys, no house keys.
One of her bedroom windows was unlocked so she got a yard chair to stand on, to crawl in the window.Then she realized that she needed a screw driver to get the screen off so she went to the garage for one. Just as she came out of the garage a cloud burst opened up and absolutely buckets of water dumped on her before she could get out of it.
The rain only lasted for a few minutes so she got the screen off and the window open. As she went through the small window head first she realized why women are referred to as broads.
Anyway, she got the keys and on out to the car and back to Jumbo's for the tape. She looked for fifteen minutes but couldn't find the tape so asked for some help. The girl said "Sure. I know where it is." But after they looked for another fifteen minutes she finally concluded that they didn't carry stick 'em on tight -- no break 'em tape except around Christmas time.
Jerre left Jumbo's just about in tears and beginning to think there was just about no way that she could get the Pringles and squirt cheese mailed to Becky that day.
However, as she was leaving the store someone said that, "... Maybe the drug store down on the corner had some of the tape..." So she went on down there. Glory be, oh happy day, they had some. She ran into Dr Webber in the drug store and had a cheerful chat with him, so began to feel better.
She got the tape and went out to the car to finish the wrapping. So there the package was all legally wrapped and ready for mailing. As she was driving out of the parking lot onto Westheimer Road, she noticed that traffic was piled up in all lanes as far as she could see.
"My goodness, is this the five o'clock traffic? I started out at ten this morning to mail Becky a package and here is it five!"
Luckily the traffic was courteous and let her work her way out into the left-turn-lane so she could get on down to the Post office. She got it mailed and on back home about five forty-five.
She got out of the car and into the kitchen and laid her purse down and was taking a deep breath. The front door banged open and Robert barged in: "What's for dinner?!"
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