Dave admired the recent work of the tree guys on the property line side of the homestead. He was strolling back from the mailbox thumbing through the junk and a handwritten envelope caught his eye. It was addressed to him at this address but it was supposed to go to Appleton WI 54911 not here. He turned and went back to the mailbox and dropped it in the slot after circling the city and state and writing "wrong address" on the front. The next day the same letter was in his mail so he googled his name, address and Appleton WI and found no such place in that zip code. So he opened the envelope and it was addressed to him and Connie and referenced their support for a couple of local politicians leading to a request for a donation to Mel Grigson running for congress in Appleton WI. Dave's curiosity led him to look up Mel Grigson and there was a website which included a phone number which Dave immediately called. A guy answered and Dave started explaining about the letter to which the guy apologized and said it was mis-addressed. Dave was not satisfied and looked a little further into this Grigson guy and how his name with an Appleton address end up in his mailbox twice. The lady at the post office was no help - she said it did not go through the post office even though the cancellation markings showed that it did. Then it dawned on Dave that the boss tree guy was wearing a Packers hat, so Dave called their office and said he thought a really nice penknife may have been left by the boss tree guy and could he have his cell phone number to check with him. The bozo at the office actually gave Dave the number and when he called, the guy answered and Dave asked "how's everything in Appleton?" The guy stammered and asked "who's this?" Dave said "it might be worth your while to stop by" and gave him his address. The guy shows up about an hour later and Dave shows him the letter and asked if he knew anything about it. The guy saw the beer in Dave's hand and said "if you get me a beer, I'll tell you what I know". Turns out Dave was right. The guy's in cahoots with this Grigson guy

SHIT - PISS, this story won't work. How did the guy get the letter after Dave remailed it? He broke into the outgoing bin. How'd he screw up the address by using Appleton, WI? I don't know. I felt like a mystery story today and I thought it was going to make sense but it doesn't. I used tree guy 'cause the neighbors just had their trees trimmed last week. I was going to make the gist being that the Grigson guy wasn't trying to get elected but created a campaign because you can get rich running for office. Now there's the mystery - why does running for office sometimes result in making multi-millionaires out of assholes? So you're asking if that's true, why don't I run for office? Because if everybody did, would you jump off a bridge? I can't brain today because I have the dumbs from that bad dream this morning when I left my love on the doorstep and walked away. Maybe it was the carrots.