A side effect of the pandemic is the flood of deliveries pouring into our homes — that is, pouring into our homes IF the package-deliverer figures out how to get them there. It’s not enough that these essential and surely underpaid workers have to deal with Covid while lifting heavy stuff. They also have to decipher signs like this one:
Why the quotation marks? Is it “we call it ‘door bell’ but it’s really an ejection button” or “that guy calls himself ‘Door Bell‘ because his real name is Mgkysdn”? Maybe door bell is meant to be a verb, what any package is supposed to do. I’m going with the last interpretation because picturing a package in the act of door-belling makes me smile.
Here’s another sign giving life to packages:
I removed the address to avoid embarrassing the sign-writer, who appears to think that packages will be eager to elope with the doorman.
Not every sign is bad:
I’m all for anything done graciously, a quality in short supply these days. And the fate of deliveries . . . graciously received appeals. It’s bound to be better than packages treated as this sign requests:
I hope no one’s in that yard, ever. Head bonks hurt! Plus, you end up writing a sign like this one:
Final thought for today: Wherever you or your packages land, I hope you’re safe and well.
I, too, am smiling at door-belling packages. Good ones!
We need all the smiles we can get, these days!
There it is the message I’m about to stick on my mailbox; with a few adjustments being made to it, for example a “wall” replacing the “fence” and the addition of “do not hesitate to ring the bell if you are afraid of bonking somebody’s head.” I know a bonk may hurt, and I’ll be wearing a helmet when in the yard, but I hope not encounter a package all squashed into the small opening as I did weeks ago.
Your comment made me smile! Thanks!
My positive review of your book English Grammar, third edition, is on amazon.com. Currently, I’m drafting a review of your book “25 Great Sentences.” Great book. Please email me the title of your book that’s set for publishing in 2021.
Thanks so much! The next book is entitled “Sentence. A Period to Period Guide to Building Better Readers and Writers” (March 2021). Its intended audience is teachers, with lesson plans and supplemental material for teaching via great sentences.
Hi, Geraldine Woods.
May I quote the title of your next book and the sentence; “Its audience is teachers, with lesson plans and supplemental material for teaching via great sentences.”
Also, would it be accurate for me to say that I communicated with you on your blog?
Regards,
C. J. Singh Wallia,
cjsingh.wallia@alumni.stanford.edu (Call me just “c j”)
Yes, of course. And thanks again for your kind words about my books!
Sometimes I think certain sign-writers suffered head bonks when they were kiddies. Sigh…
Or maybe they are part of a grand plan to amuse us!