Reply #8: We must have the same UPS guy! [View All]

[pipi_k]

We have his cell phone number. He said we can call him if we ever have something for him to pick up.

If the roads are too bad for him to drive on, he'll leave our stuff with a neighbor who owns a business in town, and then the neighbor drops it off here on her way home (she lives on our road).


Almost all of the UPS drivers we've had here in the past 13 years have been friendly and courteous.

There was only one guy, working the roads when we first moved here, who was a bit of a problem. We called him "Mad John". He would come screeching down the hill (dirt road, steep hill) and whip into the driveway, which was shorter then...actually ended in thick forest just past the garage/barn. He would slam on the brakes, turn around fast, and just take time to toss the package out the truck onto the porch and then whiz back out again and up the hill. Never said "Hi"...always had a sour look on his face.

Well, one winter the roads were real bad from a snowstorm and we were coming back home from someplace when we discovered the road was blocked by Mad John's big brown truck which had gotten stuck. Even though we were only driving a little Ford Ranger pickup, Mr P hooked Big Brown up to it and we freed him from his snow trap.

After that, he was a whole lot more sociable, and instead of whizzing into the driveway doing 50 MPH, he only did 25....

And he always said "Hi" as he threw our package out the truck window...

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