Parcel pick up story

[palitoy]

So I got a tag to pick up my packages at the drug store. Everyday after five you have this mad dash through the store hoping to beat the ten other guys with pick up tags.

The store has been renovated, so unless you're a post office regular like me, you don't know the PO has moved to the other side.

I see a guy ahead of me going to the wrong side of the store with his tag and I glide over to first place. I'm signing out my parcels and two minutes later he is just breathing down my neck while I do this.

He reeks. Like Peeeyooooooooo! "take a shower and burn your clothes" kinda stink. As I leave I give him an irritated look. I can't get that smell out of my head, I can taste it.

I get home and open my parcel, yeah, it wasn't him that stunk but the incredibly "Basementy" toy that dwelled inside. This thing seems to have come from cat pee heaven, I think I owe him an apology.

[Mikey]

That's funny ....

Sad, but funny

[toys2cool]

lol he probably thought the same thing about you

[palitoy]

lol he probably thought the same thing about you

Yeah, he was probably thinking "what's your problem stinky?".

[megoapesnut]

Ugh, I was at the bank the other day with someone who actually did smell like that. He was at the teller next to me and it was all I could do not to gag. I was starting to wonder if I was the only one who noticed it, but he soon left and the teller lifted a can of air freshener from under her counter and sprayed the area! I got a chuckle from that. Now you know that bank tellers keep cans of air freshener close by.

[gaga4toyz]

Sorry about the cat pee smell B. My cat has a kidney infection. I'm glad my package finally arrived though.

[Shanester]

I'm confused. The post ofice is in the drug store?

[the editor]

Maybe it was his fault. He may have had his cat pee all over your parcel prior to your arrival...huh? Maybe right?

[palitoy]

I'm confused. The post ofice is in the drug store?

Yeah, we don't have a post office anymore, it's a series of counters in drug stores where I live. I used to work in one as a teen, one Christmas somebody mailed a fish and it sat for a week, fun week.

[Gorn Captain]

The bus that goes into town has a regular I like to call "Stinky Guy".
No matter how crowded that bus is, always plenty of seating around SG, I can tell you....
He once sat down next to me, and the bus was so crowded, I had no escape route.
I sat with my hand covering my mouth and nose for 45 minutes.
When I came home, the dog smelled my clothes and went "Wow! Greatest gift ever! Clothes with Crap Smell!!!!"

[cjefferys]

I'm confused. The post ofice is in the drug store?

It's kind of common in Canada. My town has a little post office, but the next town over has a postal kiosk in Shoppers Drug Mart.

[samurainoir]

So I got a tag to pick up my packages at the drug store. Everyday after five you have this mad dash through the store hoping to beat the ten other guys with pick up tags.

I went through the exact same situation yesterday. The big issue being that many of us park out in front on Yonge st, throw on the hazards and pray that we can get in and out before the rush hour parking enforcement makes it back around the block. Life in the big bad city.

There was a near riot as we were all stuck behind the fella filling out his shipping slips one at a time at the counter while the clerk was processing each of his packages. Usually they just hand them that stack of slips and ask him to step aside, but for whatever reason, the guy behind the counter was letting him get away with it.

[samurainoir]

It's kind of common in Canada. My town has a little post office, but the next town over has a postal kiosk in Shoppers Drug Mart.

It actually works out better for most of us since the regular official post offices run by Canada Post are only open during the daytime, and drugstores give us access on evenings and weekends for the working stiff.

My only issue is that I am halfway between two drugstores and it's completely random where the packages will show up. Sometimes I get a slip for each of them in one day and have to stand in line twice.

[cjefferys]

That's true, I do like the extended hours of the one at the Shoppers near me.

When I receive parcels, it seems completely random. Sometimes, the postal guy delivers it to my house, sometimes I get a note in the mail box and have to pick it up at the post office. If it does get delivered to my house and no one is home, sometimes they leave the parcel on the porch (not a big fan of that!) and sometimes they put a notice on the door that I have to pick it up. Weird.

[livnxxxl]

Cat urine can be very putrid. I had the unlikely misfortune of crossing paths with some man that smelled that way at a thrift store one day. He was enough to gag a maggot. I am not kidding. The stinch would darn near knock you down. I always avoid him if I ever see him any more. How could a person not know that they smell that horrible is beyond me.

Some times I wonder if hunting for vintage toys in thrift stores is REALLY worth it. LOL!!