Today we received our neighbour’s post by accident. Normally this wouldn’t be a problem as it’s usually a bill or junk mail. You just go downstairs and stick it through their door. Not in this case. Today we received a catalogue. Shapely Figures catalogue to be precise. With the strap line ‘Make the most of your figure’. A nice sentiment I think you’ll agree but not really something I’d like to consider in association with my elderly neighbour. So what do you do in a situation like that? Bear in mind that it wasn’t a discrete catalogue but plastered with a large picture of a large lady. I couldn’t just post it through their letterbox. It was almost one o’clock in the afternoon so, if I posted it, they would know that it wasn’t the postman. They would know that it came from upstairs. They would know that I’d seen my neighbour’s underwear of choice. It’s not that I was embarrassed (which I was) but more to do with the fact that my neighbour might be embarrassed when she knew I’d seen her catalogue (which she wouldn’t have been). So what could I do? Post the letter through her door and leave us both in the knowledge that I’d seen her large smalls? Keep the catalogue myself? Throw the catalogue out in the recycling? (I knew this wasn’t a feasible option because my neighbour might see our recycling and think I’d been stealing her mail). In the end I just took the catalogue to the post-box and reposted it. I know I’m costing the Royal Mail more money but, to save our collective embarrassment, I think it’s worth it. I just hope my next issue of Fat Kids Magazine doesn’t get delivered downstairs by mistake.
Dan
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