This morning at the 23rd and Union Post Office, a woman and her young daughter are looking in the stamp case and discussing at length which stamps they will buy. When they get to the counter:
Employee: We’re out of stamps.
Woman: ???
Employee: The only ones left are the Ronald Reagans.
Woman: I’ll pass.
Ronald “Government is the Problem” Reagan is on a U.S. Post office stamp?
Republican hypocrisy knows no limits.
I’ve actually walked into the post office here and been told “we’re out of stamps.” Not even Reagan ones left. Unfuckingbelievable.
HA ha!
Made my day, Gillian!
Thank God others still remember the nightmare that was Ronald Reagan. Talk about revisionist history with current so-called conservative patriots praising him as “Mount Rushmore Worthy” – Reagan was the smiling nice guy that stabs you in the back, and the puppet of big money…
That’s what I would do if they go ahead with that GW Bush coin. Well, okay, I wouldn’t pass on the money, but I would tell the cashier to give me something without Bush on it.
Yay!!!
The Reagan and Ford stamps rock. Combining them with bubble quotes is fun.
That is AMAZING! God, I love this city.
ditto 9
What are these “stamps” you old people are talking about?
Fantastic.
I wouldn’t take a Reagan stamp either. Best story of the week.
Those post office kiosks print out stamps at will. I guess I’ll assume the 23rd & Union post office doesn’t have one. That’s some bullshit.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!
I had a similar conversation with the postal worker regarding stamps for my wedding invitations. Except he was joking about putting them on my invites, which we both realized would not be a good idea.
Funny how no one wants them…
I love that woman
I was less than twenty years old when he became President, but it wasn’t long before I _knew_ I’d be shaking my cane at the mention of “that man” some day—though I doubt I’d call him “Reaganfeld”.
Meanwhile, last week’s 4th of July parade in Lubbock TX featured a R.R. float.
I was at the Broadway post office some years ago and asked to see an assortment of current stamps. The employee offered a John Wayne plate and I said “that’s too redneck for me” and oh boy did he laugh, adding “I agree, madam, I agree.”
An earlier time I went to the Union St. post office asking for Fitzgerald stamps and the employee said that they ran out of the Ella. That is when I learned it helps to know one’s audience’s cultural tradition when asking for stamps.
Man, I love those Reagan stamps. I used up my sheet. I believe they were “forever” ones. BTW, Nancy Reagan just turned 90 y/o.
I love how Reagan revisionists spout “he won the cold war,” and conveniently leave out all that untidy, glasnost/perestroika/Gorbechev bit. Or that the Soviet Union fell apart in 1991, when Bush the First was in office. Or the fall of the Berlin Wall, again under Bush I, which no sane person could argue had anything at all to do with Reagan…or or or.
He was a shitty president, he ushered in an era of unbelievably irresponsible government, and he still deserves to be hung in effigy for the legacy of inequality and injustice he left behind. Our decline as a people started with the Reagan administration.
How about I pay for half of the stamps, and my grandchildren will pay the difference, with interest?
In the meantime, I’d like to tell you an amusing story that will give you a warm feeling deep inside, and then before I leave I’ll assure you that no thanks are necessary for the fantastic deal I just gave you on the stamps.
@23: ahh, thanks for that stroll down memory lane ca. 1980-88
@21, how long did her astrologer tell her she has left before she kicks the bucket?