The Sound of Other Days

[bugshaw]

The postman rang twice; and knocked and rapped and thumped and generally made lots of noise, so I jumped out of bed to open the door and receive a package. Why is it that he delivers at 10, 11, or 12 on a weekday but 07:35 on a Saturday?

Five minutes later the doorbell rang again. I rushed downstairs, but there was no one to be seen. No vans, no non-delivery cards, no people wandering disconsolately away down the street.

And then it occurred to me: the doorbell stopped working for a while - what if it has been storing all the soundless bell-presses and only now releasing them, like slow glass but a slow doorbell? If I can calibrate this, I can work out which rings were me when I had no keys, and if we had a pane of slow glass fitted I could look out at myself.

Gosh, I'm being a bit random this morning. And if you've done six random things this morning, why not round it off with breakfast of [blindfolds self and reaches into cupboards] chilli, matzoh flour and sandwich pickle at [types "random" into Google Maps] Random, St Neots?

Comments

[hilarityallen.livejournal.com]

Because postmen are bastards. Gareth has had the same problem.

[emperor]

We get that too (although it was more like 9:30 today, and more like 13:30 during the week).

[alex-holden.livejournal.com]

I asked a postman that once and he said it was because he wanted to knock off early on a Saturday. Apparently they can go home when they've finished their round.

[ms-cataclysm.livejournal.com]

The postman does deliver the parcels at that time on weekdays too but I usually get the door before you hear it.

chilli, matzoh flour and sandwich pickle at [types "random" into Google Maps] Random, St Neots?

[saare-snowqueen.livejournal.com]

Have you been chewing those funny mushrooms again?