Okay so yesterday I was at my parents’ house and going out to their garden to get some tomatoes. On my way I tripped and fell over this wire cage stuff people use in gardens. (I don’t know what it’s technically called.) I lightly sprained my right ankle and torqued/sprained my left knee.

When it first happened it was the ankle that hurt the most, the other seemed mild. So my dad runs in and gets me some ice. And then my mom comes out and she’s laughing because she’s saying: “You went inside and got ice, then came back out to sit on the ground and cry about it, didn’t you?” lol.

Maybe it was because I got ice on it immediately and pretty much ignored my left leg. Several hours later my left knee had swollen about to the size of a grapefruit. And now I’m on crutches. This sucks beyond sucking. I can hardly do anything but write.

Anyway…on the post office issue. I emailed them, explained the entire situation, and here is their reply: “I’m sorry about the inconvenience, but you’ll have to take your receipt and go to the post office to find out if you owe the 58 cents.”

OH. MY. GOD. A., I’m so completely not going to the post office with my leg like this. B. I don’t personally care one way or the other about the 58 cents. It’s 58 cents.

I had to email them back to request that they please read my entire comment to them and that the issue is not the money, the issue is that one of their machines is improperly calibrated for them to arrive at the conclusion that I owed them money, and that if it’s the one I used to buy my postage that needs to be rectified because everyone who uses that machine and also has an SASE doesn’t need to look unprofessional to the person they’re mailing to. The entire point of an SASE is to not burden people who get loads of mail they have to send back with extra postage costs. It adds up.

So the saga continues. I swear. I honestly do not understand why it’s so difficult to read an entire comment in context and draw from that the real issue. Every time I’ve ever had to deal with any large company on any issue in email I’ve had to explain my problem about 10 different times before comprehension dawned. If they think the real issue is that I’m mad I might owe them 58 cents, they are smoking the wacky weed.