Concerned Citizen

     I finally had a chance to sit down and write. I have been busy doing other things. But I did have a chance to to take some pictures through out the week. Also a question a concerned citizen had for me.

     I was getting mail out of the back of my truck, when a lady came up to me and asked. "Why do the delivery trucks still park in the no parking section of the cross walks when they were made so a pedestrian can be safer??" I said to her that I am the only vehicle aloud to park there, the other  vehicles would get a ticket. Again she asked"WHY??" I told her " I have a FEDERAL vehicle and I can park here." She asked "What makes you special??" Again I said "I have a F-E-D-E-R-A-L vehicle and I have that right"( for now anyway) She just grumbled and walked away.
I also had a new policeman a few years back tell me that I needed to move my truck off the cross walk or I could get a ticket. I actually laughed a little at him.(which I shouldn't have) I proceeded to tell him about being a federal vehicle and if he could locate my registration sticker and licence plates I would gladly accept his ticket for illegal parking. Yep! You guessed it, I don't have either things on my truck. I told him I would be only a minute to drop off this heavy package and I would move. ( I don't think he liked me after that:)
     Right now I have the right as a federal vehicle to park wherever. They could change it some day and I would have to follow the rules. Out of respect I don't park by fire hydrants or in handicap spots. If I have to double park it's because I have a large or heavy parcel.

Assortment of shots.

Decided to put a few days of shooting into one post.

     I have been fighting bronchitis for a week now so, haven't been in the picture mood. It's tough trying to work and not be able to breath and I keep coughing. I got a few shots in while at work and a few after work taking a walk to the YMCA.

 

 

 

 

 

Day off!

     I have the day off today! I thought I would go to Market street for a haircut(much needed) and pay a few bills. Then I will see what pictures I can get  for today.









I toured the west end of market at the Vitrix glass, Corning Art and Frame Shop and 94 West Antiques

 

 At the Art and Frame Shop James does more then fames, he also makes his own guitars and sells music posters and art.

. I got permission to get up close and personal at Vitrix to get some great shots, it was quite hot in the furnace area.

Another day of faces.

    I sat under an awning today taking candid shots which, only a handful of people dodged the rain. Half were just your regular Riffraff. ( Just kidding guys). Others yelled from their cars telling me to get to work. That would be Dan doing the yelling who, is a retired postal worker. I just sit and watch the people walk up and down market street looking at their expressions and to see if they catch me taking their picture. The ones you see looking at me as I shoot are mostly my regular customers.

Faces of the day.

     I thought I would post daily pictures on the blog. I will save the stories for the weekends. This way you see pictures every day during my lunch break. I will add some jokes once in a while.

Lack of mail!

    
      In the last ten years the mail volume has gotten less and less. The total routes in Corning have gone from seventeen routes to eleven in the last twelve years. Almost every customer got at least a piece of mail every day, from a piece of advertisement to a love letter or birthday card. Now a days some customers are lucky to get a piece of mail a week let alone daily. The funny part is what some of us carriers were talking about the other day and this has happened to most of us. We would walk past a house or two that normally would get mail and after getting down a few houses a customer would come out , yell down to us and say... "HEY!! DID I GET ANY MAIL???" The customer would sometimes call us back just to ask us that question.  I have even made the mistake of delivering to the wrong house because, I usually go to that house daily. I would realize what I did when I got to the next house, then have to go back and sometimes stop the customer before they take it.

My home town!

     The wife and I got to get out of town for a few hours to visit some friends. I forget sometimes how isolated things still are in the country. I do miss being in the country just not the isolation, being only a half block from work and a half mile from stores has its perks. The pictures are of our drive back from the country to the "big city".