I spend hardly anytime on Nextdoor. I actually have their notifications going to an email account I use if I think I might be spammed by a site or business. Every day or two or three I flip through this account to see if there is anything of interest there, but mainly just to delete all the trash. Today, however, one notification of a posting on Nextdoor caught my attention.
Sharon RottlerKirkwood Park / Meramec • 17 hr ago
Someone just left me $60 in cash on my front porch with a note that said “mailbox replacement “ . We have been talking about replacing our mailbox, just haven’t gotten around to it. If you left the cash, please let me know who you are and why you felt the need to give us money.?
Some of you, dear cherished readers, may remember a posting of mine, The Things We Notice, on this same channel. In that posting I touched on several things but one was the replacing of the post on which rides our mailbox.
After reading the Nextdoor posting, I quickly came to the conclusion that I had not been patient enough, that I should have listened to Señora’s encouragement just a little while longer before undertaking the much needed replacement of our mailbox post. Since I replaced the old post with a new cedar post, since I reused the mailbox that Sarah had painted, since I did the labor myself, the $60 would have covered my costs, and it would have left me enough over for a six-pack of one of the craft beers that I so enjoy. Ahhh…Grasshopper… patience.
You have to feel for the poster though. She tossed a softball to all the trolls out there. Some of the comments were just funny, but a least a couple were down right mean. Life on line is not for the faint of heart at times.
And so it goes.
