Well, I will say that even at 60 years old I still am like a little kid at Christmas time waiting and watching the clock for the time Mom & Dad allow us to get up and open presents. I still am like that as I guess it is that word Anticipation. Remember the song if I remember correctly, it was from a ketchup commercial.
So, I always first thing every morning I check my mail no not my e-mail my actual mail using informed delivery. I see I have a through the mail auto coming on Wednesday. So, I am looking forward to it being delivered. Now I am not sure if others had experienced this where during covid there were days we never got mail, and this really got me mad as we went 4-5 days straight with no mail. I think about that and maybe I won't be getting that through the mail auto I saw on Wednesday.
We usually get our mail around 1:30ish, I check the time and it is still early so I fell asleep in my chair and when I woke it was after 3. So, I race to the mailbox to see that nothing had been delivered and my fear sets in that I guess I will have to wait another day.
Thursday rolls around and I see the mailman walking down the other side of the street and I get excited to finally see who this mysterious auto is from. It had to be a Bruins player since that is all I collect, and I know whom I sent to but since the outside of the envelope my return address I have no way of knowing until I open the envelope.
So, I anxiously await and when I her the mailbox lid shut, I know that I will know who this auto is from. I race out the front door but to my surprise the envelope containing the auto is not there nor is any of the mail from that Wednesday, but the mail is for Thursday's mail.
What is going on here as I tell my Wife that this is totally crazy and now, I am thinking maybe I will never know who sent the Auto and other thoughts cross my mind like maybe it got put in someone else's box which has happened numerous times here.
Well Friday finally rolls in and again the same scene where I see the mail truck at the end of the street with the mail man passing by the other side of the street but this time, I hope I get that mysterious letter and that the cards are signed but by whom.
Again, I hear the clink of the mailbox cover shut and calmly walk to the box and it is there along with the other pieces of mail that were supposed to of been delivered on Wednesday. I go to my desk and carefully tear the envelope and I peek inside and see the card signed but I can't see who the player is but it has three cards all the same. I slide the cards in my hand to see that it is one that I wanted badly.
The mysterious player is none other than Linus Ullmark but he only signed the one card which I am ok with I figure one is better than none. It does make me wonder though why players do this, but I am too excited to be to upset. My collection is built by the Bruins player being shown in a Bruins jersey on the card and since there are no certified autos of Linus in a Bruins jersey, I had to wait for a base card showing him in a Bruins jersey.
I like Ullmark and had hopes he was going to be the answer to the Sabres woeful goal tending these past few years. I'm glad to see him succeed, but it stings a little that it didn't happen until after he left Buffalo...
ReplyDeleteNot to put the Sabres down but those years he was there they were not as good as they are now but honestly I believe the Sabres will get better overall next season and will make the Stanley Cup Playoffs, they came very close this season and I was hoping they snuck in.
ReplyDeleteI wish I could still get that excited over incoming mail :(
ReplyDeleteJon, In a way I know what you mean because it seems there are still some Bruins players who will not sign through the mail. I have given up on sending to Charlie Coyle as I have sent to 5 different times. There are a lot of other players who I still need that won't sign. Usually what I do is I keep waiting for that player to have a certified auto with the card showing them in a Bruins uniform but as far as I know Coyle still does not have that card. I have got asked by others why has it taken you so long to get that players autograph and I explain the player must be shown wearing the bruins spoked "B". When I first started sending through the mail auto's I was trying to complete three different sets. The sets were the 1993-94 Upper Deck and 1993-94 Parkhurst and I chose those two because a majority of players had a card or two from each set and that way I could try and work on completing both sets. The other set was the 1998-99 MVP set and I knew that one would be nearly impossible to complete with Gretzky having 4 cards but believe it or not I got two of those 4 signed by Wayne. Of course, it has slowed down as I get upset when I don't hear back by players that you would think would be kind enough to sign. I just will never understand why they won't take the time to sign for their fans.
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