I guess I should qualify that this is Part One of Many since Box Lady gave me so many interesting stories to share.
Let me set the stage for this so it will make more sense as I get into later stories involving this character: The location is City Hall. A campus of four buildings, the middle one being City Hall that has all the security and you need a badge to get in or go through the security station and metal detectors. My office is in ‘The Annex” which is just a different way of saying ‘The Old City Hall” and the one that doesn’t require any metal detectors or security badges. The door to the Copy Center opened to outside and you could go through my office to get to the mail room which everyone had to get to at least once a day. Not requiring a badge to get into my office meant that FedEx and UPS could deliver all the boxes for City Hall to my office and being next to the Mail room everyone would get their packages anyway.
So we should all be on the same page now…. Copy Center is basically the delivery destination for all the packages going to City Hall, and having the mail room connected to my office meant that everyone would get their packages when they got their mail.
Stage is set so let’s get to Box Lady and her shenanigans in Box Lady, Part One!
UPS arrives with a box that looks like it is just barely hanging on, like it didn’t get carried so much as it got dragged from the USP Barn to here. I call the lady who has not yet earned the title of ‘Box Lady’ and let her know that a box was delivered and she should take a look at it to make sure it’s OK. She must have run or something because her office is not far away from mine but further than the amount of time it took her to show up. I told her that if there was a problem with the box and anything in it I had a form from UPS that could be filled out. She declined and asked why UPS brought the box to me instead of her. I explained that the new security people at the front wouldn’t accept the deliveries any more and that I would since I had the mail room right there. The alternative was the Carrier marked it as undeliverable or whatever option allowed them to bring the delivery back tomorrow. Her eyes got really big at that suggestion and I mean big like the way a prey animal’s eyes get big just before the predator converts them from prey to meal.
She mumbled something, scooped up the box and left.
I know this story isn’t the most exciting, but consider it world-building for future stories. And I do have some entertaining stories to share from this particular world.
Thanks for reading and if you are enjoying these stories so far please share this others whom you think would enjoy it too.
More soon
Chip