Hey we all have our problems… Lost keys, lost bags, missing stuff in the house, wrong washed clothes -why are there no washing machines that detect a black sock between the white laundry-… and sometimes a mentally ill mailman stuffs all the mail in his his house instead of delivering it. Or….
Alf
Short-sighted pensioner Alf Spence tottered down to his local postbox to send a card, he hoped he hadn’t missed the last collection.
But as he popped the envelope through the little slot a concerned passerby looked at him with a stunned expression.
Post box
The Good Samaritan tapped befuddled Alf, 91, on the shoulder and explained to him that he wasn’t standing in front of a postbox but had in fact posted his great-grandson’s birthday card into a council dog poo waste bin.
Dogs poo
Partially-blind Alf, of Bedale, North Yorks (UK), is now facing up to the fact he’s been “posting” his letters, cards and competition entries into a box of steaming pooch turd for the past 2 years. The World War II veteran, who was part of the ill-fated Dieppe Raid in 1942, told Sunday Sport: “I walked down to the postbox, like I do every week, and began placing our Tommy’s third birthday card in the little slot.
“A woman walking her dog came up to me, tapped me on the shoulder, and asked what I was doing.
“I thought she was going to cry when I told her. She held my hand and pointed out that the postbox was on the other side of the road.
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