I just sent this to a customer, and sadly it’s all true, I still laughing my head off.
Hi again!No you are not crazy it’s not there yet. Release your mailman from his cell.
Long story, I hope you find this funny. I do, but then I live here.
I got your pincushion done l last week – honest! – and packed and hung it in a plastic shopping bag on the front door knob for the morning when my dear husband walks it out to the mailbox, as I always do since we don’t like to leave them at the street overnight. I thought that was the last I’d see of it, as usual.
Imagine my surprise when moving my living room chair to clean yesterday when I find YOUR package under it, riddled with “kitten damage”. The polybubble envelope had chew marks the tape and the label was covered with holes.
See we got a kitten several months ago and while she’s about 8 months old now, she’s entirely too hyper, wound up running 75 MPH round the house, and well everything is a toy and must be attacked, and oh yeah – she loooooves plastic bags.
All we can figure is she was playing with the sack over the door knob, ripped a hole in it’s bottom with her nails (hubby said he last week wondered why there was a ripped up bag on the doorknob and threw it away and didn’t think any more on it.). After she freed the package, she clearly thought it was a great thing to wrestle with, and knowing her she probably drug it around the house and played with it all night and managed to shove it under my chair.
(She also is a bit of a thief, we often catch her running off with our socks, pens and other small objects as well as finding her “trophies” stashed in her cat cube.)
Oddly this kinda has happened before. I had a package once ready to go out in the mail on my desk and woke up the next day to find it similarly gored as yours was. She didnt try to haul it off to her evil lair though.
ANYWAY, the reason I write is – GOOD NEWS!
Nothing is damaged! The pincushion is boxed, everything inside was pristine as she kept her kitten destructo-ray damage purely superficial. The only casualty is the padded envelope – and the mailing label.
So I ordered a new label up and repacked it all nice and clean and it’s RIGHT NOW in the hermitically sealed steel mailbox that not even my feral squirrel horde outside can get into. (they did chew through a plastic bin to get to the bird seed inside once).
As an apology for how long this all took you probably have found I sent you on a $10 gift cert to buy something in my store again sometime. And I promise it won’t take as long. I don’t know if that makes up for it being so late but I hope so.
Hoping this cat grows out of this phase soon, I don’t want to write one of these ever again!
Jen Segrest
BTW We’re buying a basket to mount on the wall by the door now, so no more plastic bags for outgoing mail – but knowing Lucy I’ll find her sleeping in it sometime soon. Lesson learned for us at least. This is her picture below (above), about a week after we got her, sitting on our dog Gary’s head. It should have been a sign of things to come…
