The "Putting A Track On The Envelope" Story

It was an ordinary day.  Everything has been mailed!  Finally!  My wife Carol works for the Parish Resource Center in Lancaster, PA and twice a year they mail an appeal letter asking for financial aide to keep the non-profit center open and operating.  She has worked at the center for over 15 years so that adds up to quite a few appeals she has gone through during those years.  She has to prepare the letter, print about 1100 of them with different individual names on them and then print matching envelopes for every letter.  The letters go to past donors or those who have come in to use the center in the past few years.  A trip to the school where I do the in-house printing gets the letters folded in a few minutes and next comes the stuffing of the envelopes with the letter and a pre-addressed return envelope.  Carol prefers to stuff the envelopes, since one year I may have mixed up a few letters with different envelopes creating a rather unpleasant  situation at work for her.  I do help by putting the stamps on each envelope, but under strict instructions to get them on straight and not upside down.  Then it's off to the post office for mailing the 5 boxes filled with the appeal letters.  We pulled up in front of the outdoor mail box and Carol started to hand me handfuls of envelopes as I stuffed them in the mail slot.  We have done this many times before and if someone pulls in line behind us, we usually stop and drive around again to prevent someone from having to wait while we put all the envelopes in the mail slot.  We were in luck today. No traffic!  But wait, something had to go wrong.  And it did!  We were halfway through when one of the batches I had placed in the mail slot didn't go down, but fell onto the street by the car.  And, I couldn't open the car door since I was too close to the mailbox.  So, I put the car in reverse and ......... ran over the envelopes.  I got out to retrieve the envelopes and noticed the black tire marks across the envelopes.  Now what do I do.  The only thing possible ...... I stuffed them quickly into the mail slot!  Can hardly wait until they get the letters in the mail!  Hope they think the mail truck ran over them!! It was another extraordinary day in the life of an ordinary guy.