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Post by spaniardx on Sept 18, 2018 19:59:01 GMT -5
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Post by vitugglan on Sept 20, 2018 1:22:45 GMT -5
Lol! Though it sounds like it was written about seventy years ago - no warm water, miles to the mailbox. The only twist came at the end.
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Post by spaniardx on Sept 20, 2018 9:54:29 GMT -5
There are still places where its miles to the mail box (and up hill in both directions, as we say). In fact, in our li'l corner of the Twilight Zone, no one gets mail at their house, we all have to use a PO Box. And, a round trip from our front door to the post office and back in about 1.4 miles. And it is "uphill in both directions".
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Post by vitugglan on Sept 21, 2018 2:33:11 GMT -5
Lol! My first high school was uphill (part of the way) in both directions. We didn't get feet of snow, being in Los Angeles County, but we sometimes had to fight our way through smog. Much later we also lived in a very small South Dakota town that had one employee at the post office so we had to either drive or walk (I walked, it wasn't that far) to get our mail. It was something of a social event, and I got to see the exotic animals owned by the guy next door to the post office.
She didn't say post office box, though, she said mailbox. I know farms have mailboxes out by the road while the house is a ways back and around a bend - my aunt's place was like that and it was a walk to the mailbox. Not miles, though, only about a fifth of a mile. This was back in the 1960s and everything I'd heard about farms - getting up before the crack of dawn, miles to the mailbox, outhouses and going to the well for water etc. - were already passé. One real thing was that we had to traipse to the fairgrounds to get water since the well water pumped up into the house had too much iron in it to safely drink. They could have had the Sparklets guy come out but the fairgrounds water was free and an outing at the same time.
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Post by spaniardx on Sept 21, 2018 7:47:58 GMT -5
She also mentions she doesn't miss having to deal with predawn animal feeding, so small town gal me is thinking she was raised on a (probably large) family farm with the farm house planted in the middle of the acreage. So, yeah, looong stroll down the twisty rutted drive/private road to the mail box.
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Post by vitugglan on Sept 22, 2018 1:38:23 GMT -5
Are there still farms with the house so far back from the road that it's miles to the mailbox?
Related but not related: I have a Grammarly app on the browser. I'd write 'mailbox' as two words instinctively because that's always the way I've read it and written it, but apparently it's become a single word and Grammarly puts those unsightly red lines under the two-word phrase and dings me for a mistake. It also suggested that I put a comma behind 'apparently' but I told it to ignore it. I tell it to ignore quite a lot.
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Post by spaniardx on Sept 22, 2018 6:11:12 GMT -5
Sound like you have about the same relationship to your Garmmarly app that I have to the Microsoft Word program. I have to tell it to ignore a lot of things. And teach it how to speak SpaniardX
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Post by vitugglan on Sept 22, 2018 8:02:04 GMT -5
I've taught both my personal Grammarly (I think they do this on an individual basis) and Word how to speak 'Vit.' Word doesn't seem to like my leaving two spaces between a quote ending with a comma and the 's/he said' business at the end of it, or the beginning. Leaves these blue squiggly lines that will go away the first time I tell it to ignore, but then pop back up later. Example: John said, "Mary!" "John," Mary replied. I'm leaving two spaces between the 'he said/she said' business and the quotes but the BB will automatically squeeze it down to one.
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