Dear dimwit on the phone

Better test that letter for ricin.

 

Or Colombian.

 

We thought it was so insane...we actually ran it. I mean, we called the woman that wrote it and she verified she was OK with it. I mean, who are we to judge crazy?

 

This one is either: funny, sad or crazy.

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I'm not even sure what to say, spike ...

 

All I knows is: Peoples loves Pittsburgh Steelers.

 

One less than the writer may think:

 

That's freakin' awesome!

 

No one, dimwit or otherwise, on our phones tonight. Our internet, wire and phones all went out around 5 p.m.

Internet service was restored after 7, the wire after 8. The phones didn't bounce back until midnight.

First suspect was our bundled Comcast business service, but apparently that wasn't it.

My pages were mainly in good shape before that all went down. A light playoff schedule and we were staffing one of those. A couple coaches got through to us via cell phones and we got the rest of the scores we needed via Twitter.

On the drive home, I was pondering what it would have been like if it was a football Friday night and that happened.

 

Why do readers who call just wanting to know how to submit a trophy shot, after being told to email the info to us here at the Podunk Shopping News, insist on telling you all about the team and ask for the address two more times?

Ah, hell ... I need the amusement as the Angels and A's pull off another all-nighter.

 

You have to budget time for that.
That's what we were told, when it came to such instances, years ago.

 

We traditionally have gotten all manner of "you cover Springfield more than Shelbyville" type complaints. Well three times in the last two days I've gotten backhanded compliments from people. At a baseball game yesterday it was "You wrote the story on our last game? It was a lot more balanced than we're used to." And at softball today the grandmother of a player on the best team in our area - a team we've covered just as much as anyone else this season - said to me "It's nice to see you out at one of our games for once." Same game, same school, one of the players was on our all-area girls basketball team and her mom comes up to me and said "It was nice to see girls from other schools make the team this year."
So, three times in two days I get to hear that we don't suck as much as everyone thought.
Uh. . . . thanks?