You have my sympathies.
Did the misses bite you for suggesting a brown sofa?
Need less manly kitchen knives
No, a bastard dog behind a letter box.
TBH, I should know better, not putting your fingers all the way through a letter box is drummed into you, but they had a really stiff draught excluder attached to it, and the letter was really flimsy and kept just folding up so I had to really shove it through andā¦
Rookie mistake
Indeed.
The best bit is I shouldnāt have even been delivering there, I should have been on a different duty, but when I got in, that duty had already been taken out by someone on overtime, whoād taken the wrong duty by mistakeā¦
That is a bit rough (ruff??). I would report the dog as dangerous to the correct authorities and then go on long term sick leave suffering from PTSD (Pinkie Thoroughly Savaged (by) Dog). Obviously, a brown sofa and chair combo would be easily within your financial capacity once the compo comes through.
If the dog did that to your finger, what the fuck will it have done to the letter?
Letters donāt look and taste like sausages. Fingers on the other handā¦
Iām usually really switched on about it, I was rushing a bit and got careless. I noticed later there was a beware of the dog sign, so suing them is probably a non starter, and for something like that I wouldnāt anyway. If it actually went for me in the open, then Iād go for it.
Iāll ask work to send them a letter telling them what happened, and asking them to fit a cage to the door or an external box.
Thatās gonna hurt in the morning
It fucking well hurts now.
The best bit will be trying to cut away the nail.
Is your tetanus jab up to date?
Yep. From the last time i got bit. That was a little twat of a JRT that went for me from behind and clamped into my calf. The woman who owned it laughed at me when I told her.
She didnāt fucking well laugh when I reported it to the police and suspended her mail delivery.
Trudat.
Did you go to Casualty?
Nah, itās not too bad really, just ripped the nail up. Not going to waste the NHSās resources on that. I wrapped it with a tissue and held that in place with a couple of rubber bands until I finished my round and then went across the road to the pharmacy in Asda and got antiseptic wipes and plasters.
Iāll keep a plaster over it till it starts to lift up a bit then trim it back.
I was very lucky though, thereās loads of Posties who lose fingertips or even whole fingers to this kind of thing.
Laxative chocolate through that letterbox tomorrow
Lol!
Sympathies. RM issued Mrs VB with a plastic thing for pushing letters in when there was a dog. She said it was next to useless. Sounds like the dog needs aversion therapy. If youāre ever back that way Iād use one of those jokeshop plastic fingers with a few dried chili seeds tacked on with gelatin. Anything hotter/fresher would have a warning smell.
VB