On Mon, 04 Feb 2008 14:42:44 -0500, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>blake murphy wrote:
>
>>
>> >
>> >My mom used to give the mailman a jar of homemade
>> >jam or jelly at Christmas. I suppose these days
>> >that would be officially disallowed because you
>> >never know when somebody would want to poison
>> >their mailman.
>>
>> my mother just gave him a joint.
>
>If he is like most of the mail carriers I used to know, he probably sparked it
>up right away. They used to love their job.... smoke a jpint, go for a walk and
>drop off some mail along the way.

i talked to one who was trying to quit smoking crack. unfortunately,
his route was through a couple crack neighborhoods filled with
friendly people...

your pal,
blake