I know I’m but one small drop in the bucket, but I sure do love making waves.
Speaking of waves…
I was heading out the door to catch the various buses I needed to take for the three hour trek back and forth to the UPS warehouse when I noticed a new UPS notice for someone else attached to the front door. Peeking up the road I saw a UPS truck pulling away from the curb so I started shouting “UPS! UPS! Stop!” Some gentleman on the corner was kind enough to flag down the truck for me, and the driver stopped on the next block.
UPS had just tried to deliver a package containing medicine to a neighbor whose intercom doesn’t work, but he still had my package yet didn’t try buzzing me because at that point mine was flagged for delivery to the warehouse so I could pick it up in person.
My neighbor was home, and this is apparently not the first failed attempt at delivering the medicine she needs. She even mentioned packages getting stolen from her doorstep when I mentioned that the UPS driver at first offered to let me sign for it to leave it on her doorstep, but when I suggested I’d rather leave her a note for her to come knock on my door to get it in person, he changed his mind.
This 9 to 5 world of doing what one is instructed if not ordered to do rather than the mindset of simpler times of going to extremes to make life a better world for one’s neighbors is something I’ve never understood nor accepted.
It’s become so bad that I’m not surprised when I hear of people I’ve come to know expatriating themselves to foreign countries trying to escape this dumbed down, conformist mentality inflicting the western world.
