Sometimes things work out.

[cupcake_goth]

I was over at my next-door neighbors, helping her with some computer issues, when I mentioned my vanished package; the post office swore it had been delivered, and I was really upset about it because it was a vintage Ray Bradbury book.

She stared at me, said, "WAIT A MINUTE", and bolted off to rummage through a stack of things. It turns out that Mr. Bradbury is one of her favorite authors, too, and when out for a walk the other day, found a vintage Bradbury hardback just sitting on a row of mailboxes, damp from the rain. She picked it up, and one of the other people in the neighborhood told her that he'd "found a really ripped up and battered package with that book sticking out it^*." My neighbor shrugged and took it home.

She found my book. By complete chance, she found my book and got it back to me.

I don’t care that it's battered and worn. It's a 1962 hardback of one of my favorite books in the world, and it's MINE.


^*That's in quotes, because there's been a LOT of problems with mail theft in our neighborhood, and the guy she was talking to is someone the rest of the neighbors suspect.

Comments

[ashbet]

I would MURDER the guy who probably left your vintage book out in the rain . . . but I'm so glad that you were able to get it back!!

<3<3<3

[theda.livejournal.com]

How serendipitous!

[jola.livejournal.com]

Plus, now that book has a great story attached to it! BONUS!

... and watch that guy like a hawk. VENGEANCE IS CALLED FOR.

[cupcake-goth.livejournal.com]

All of the neighbors know who he is, and the woman who is his accomplice has been arrested. (And is out on bail, even tho' this is her third arrest for mail theft and identity fraud, hmmph.)

So yeah, all of the neighbors are watching them. And I'm reminding myself that certain members of my family frown on hexing/cursing people, and would yell at me.

[jola.livejournal.com]

no, no need for hexing ... though I wouldn't write off egging the bastard's windows come Devil's Night.

[staxxy.livejournal.com]

hurRah for gettng it back!

and there is one hex that everyone can agree to, largely because it is not really a hex - divine retribution. alerting the Powers That Be that an individual has racked up an overabundance of karma that could use some attention.

the karma you have racked up is good karma so attention towards balancing that out will only be in ylur favor. anf you are not bringing them any harm personally, merely calling attention to te imbalance.