# My new mail carrier... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 21, 2017, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-new-mail-carrier/791840 "2017-07-21T21:48:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2017, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-new-mail-carrier/791840/1 "2017-07-21T21:48:02Z")
Is a smoking hot blond woman who wears cat-eye glasses and who makes the ridiculous Summer uniform alluring. Of this, I heartily approve. That is all. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2017, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-new-mail-carrier/791840/2 "2017-07-21T22:20:51Z")
Send her roses. At your local post office. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2017, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-new-mail-carrier/791840/3 "2017-07-21T22:50:10Z")
Don’t let the kids selling magazine subscriptions find out or you’ll end up getting 3 issues of Vogue every month. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2017, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-new-mail-carrier/791840/4 "2017-07-21T22:54:08Z")
Cat-eye glasses? ---
**Author:** ![Mtgman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@Mtgman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mtgman)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2017, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-new-mail-carrier/791840/5 "2017-07-21T23:01:57Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > Cat-eye glasses? It’s a style of frames for glasses that has [a raised and slightly pointed outer rim](http://www.zennioptical.com/eyeglass-shop-by-style/cat-eye-glasses) which makes it look more like a cat’s eyes. Enjoy, Steven ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2017, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-new-mail-carrier/791840/6 "2017-07-21T23:03:40Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > Cat-eye glasses? They’re baack! [![](https://i.pinimg.com/736x/58/d4/27/58d42773945626ba4fb53db5465476e3.jpg) ](https://i.pinimg.com/736x/58/d4/27/58d42773945626ba4fb53db5465476e3.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2017, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-new-mail-carrier/791840/7 "2017-07-21T23:17:17Z")
> [@Mtgman](#): > > It’s a style of frames for glasses that has [a raised and slightly pointed outer rim](http://www.zennioptical.com/eyeglass-shop-by-style/cat-eye-glasses) which makes it look more like a cat’s eyes. > [@gigi](#): > > They’re baack! > > [https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/58/d4/27/58d42773945626ba4fb53db5465476e3--cat-eye-glasses-retro-chic.jpg](https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/58/d4/27/58d42773945626ba4fb53db5465476e3--cat-eye-glasses-retro-chic.jpg) I was thinking of something very, very different… I think of those as frumpy and old-fashioned, and possibly stereotypical. Obviously things have moved on. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2017, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-new-mail-carrier/791840/8 "2017-07-21T23:33:34Z")
You just never know where or when you’ll encounter a smokin’ hot female type of person that you might or might not ever see again. About a month ago hanging around the airport we got a flight of six or seven cute little [RV airplanes](https://www.vansaircraft.com/) (they’re sporty little kits that you buy and build-them-yourself) that came in, flying in formation, to gas up. Now it so happens that our glider clubhouse is next to the gas pumps. So we got a radio call from one of the pilots – a female voice – asking for someone from glider ground crew to come over for some reason. We found [THIS](http://www.bluestmuse.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/DSC_0166-700x465.jpg) really cute little RV airplane (among several others) (it’s the one in the foreground in this pic), piloted by [THIS](https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/avatars/f117fte_1328320495_280.jpg) pilot. Yes, really! She wanted know if we had a bottle of water she could have. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2017, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-new-mail-carrier/791840/9 "2017-07-22T00:05:33Z")
I don’t mean to imply that I plan on crushing up on her or anything. Your take away point is that, all other things being equal, I prefer to have my mail delivered by a smoking hot blond woman rather than by a man who looks like a construction of beef jerky and doubleknit polyester. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2017, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-new-mail-carrier/791840/10 "2017-07-22T01:06:04Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > You just never know where or when you’ll encounter a smokin’ hot female type of person that you might or might not ever see again. Many years ago, an Ice-Cream truck came through our neighborhood (The first and only time in 20 years), and \*OH MY GOD! \*:eek: Best lookin’ woman I’ve ever seen! ---
**Author:** ![ASGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/838e76/32.png) [@ASGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASGuy)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2017, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-new-mail-carrier/791840/11 "2017-07-22T01:34:30Z")
Pretty topical for me. My previous carrier, Amy, was eye candy too. If I happened to spot her before she made it to my location I made it a point to be at my box when she came by. Friendly gal but 20 years too young. Sorry for being sexist, but she was definitely eye candy for this 63 year old pervert. Amy left for a year in England a few weeks ago. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2017, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-new-mail-carrier/791840/12 "2017-07-23T17:37:02Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Many years ago, an Ice-Cream truck came through our neighborhood (The first and only time in 20 years), and \*OH MY GOD! \*:eek: > > Best lookin’ woman I’ve ever seen! To me, anyone surrounded by ice cream is sure to look gorgeous. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2017, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-new-mail-carrier/791840/13 "2017-07-23T17:58:32Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > You just never know where or when you’ll encounter a smokin’ hot female type of person that you might or might not ever see again. I always wish for that when I hear a pretty name and I am usually disappointed but not always. One notable time was when I had an incredibly painful scratched cornea that was made worse even by sound. I had to go to the ophthalmologist regularly for two weeks. His assistant walked in and I recoiled in pain because my eyes instinctively dilated. She was one of the most beautiful women I had ever seen and that was not the time for it. I had to do that every day for a week with her standing right in front of me touching my face at breast level. Another time was when I got a call from a headhunting agency about a potential job. I got set up with “Margo” who I thought I knew pretty well after a few phone calls. She was just a middle-aged, frumpy woman right? I finally had to meet her in person and the name and voice did not match at all. It turns out that Margo should have been a supermodel. I talked with her for an hour in her private office but I was so distracted that I blew the interview even for things that I knew perfectly well. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2017, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-new-mail-carrier/791840/14 "2017-07-23T18:18:37Z")
Heh. I’m eternally grateful I only had phone interviews on one of my jobs. When I actually met the director in person I was a blithering idiot and I know I would have flubbed an in-person interview terribly. He was super handsome but also had the whole charisma thing going. About the name thing, I’m named Gwendolen and I can imgaine what people might think a Gwendolen looks like. Picture the opposite and that’s me 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Dragwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dragwyr/32/2855_2.png) [@Dragwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragwyr)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2017, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-new-mail-carrier/791840/15 "2017-07-24T17:24:01Z")
I once had my gas turned off due to some road construction in front of my house. They sent us a message that if we had any problems with any gas appliances after the gas was turned back on, to call the gas company and they would come out and get them going again for us (basically relight the pilot light on them). So I called the gas company and they sent out a person to safely re-light our pilot light on our hot water heater, and WOWZERS, was she hot! I mean, she was sexy… really sexy. It was all I could do to keep my composure. Then, as quick as she arrived, she was gone. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2017, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-new-mail-carrier/791840/16 "2017-07-24T17:59:09Z")
One of the local snow cone vendors resembled [Guy Gilchrist’s version of Fritzi Ritz](http://art.cafimg.com/images/Category_35597/subcat_163089/C7OtOLi5_0203150949191.jpg) but with Latina heritage. Haven’t seen her cart since her corner got fenced off for redevelopment. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2017, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-new-mail-carrier/791840/17 "2017-07-24T19:01:16Z")
> [@Dragwyr](#): > > I once had my gas turned off due to some road construction in front of my house. They sent us a message that if we had any problems with any gas appliances after the gas was turned back on, to call the gas company and they would come out and get them going again for us (basically relight the pilot light on them). So I called the gas company and they sent out a person to safely re-light our pilot light on our hot water heater, and WOWZERS, was she hot! I mean, she was sexy… really sexy. It was all I could do to keep my composure. Then, as quick as she arrived, she was gone. She probably leaves quickly before the homeowner can start up with “C’mon baby light my fire”.