Insufficient postage

July 28, 2008 6 Comments

Scene = Post Office; this morning.
Customer = 60-70 year old woman; frail (why is it old people don’t sweat…even in this heat?)
Post Office Worker Biatch = young black woman who has more interest in her nails than helping anyone.

Automated number system: “Cashier number 11 please”

Customer shuffles down the line to cashier 11.

Customer: I just want to ask a question.
Post Office Worker Biatch: uh-huh
Customer: I want to see how much this letter costs to send.
Post Office Worker Biatch: put it on the scales.

Customer puts letter onto scales.

Post Office Worker Biatch: fifty-two pence
Customer: I just want to see how much it costs to send.
Post Office Worker Biatch: fifty-two pence
Customer: I have put some stamps on…is that enough?

Customer holds up envelope with four first class stamps and two second class stamps stuck to it.

Post Office Worker Biatch: That’s more than enough!
Customer: What?
Post Office Worker Biatch: There’s more than enough on there.
Customer: I’ve waited in line for twenty seven minutes to ask that.

Customer turns and walks off, mumbling: “I had enough stamps on it all along.”

I shuffle one place down the line and continue to queue, wondering if I’ll be this sweaty when I’m that old.

Posted by murphyz | Filed Under Society