Has Anyone Seen My Friends, Deb and Dan?

Here are two of the best people in the state of New York.

If they had only told me that they were joining the Witness Protection Program I would have advised them on a different look. Actually there are three people shown here, aren't there? The man with his arm around Deb? I have no idea who he is...maybe he's part of the FBI assigned to relocate McDannyboy and O'Deb Shamrock to their new potato patch.

I first talked to Deb probably 20 years ago when Fran and I ran a home-based craft business and Deb called to order some of our personalized prints. She became a good customer, ordering often, and in the process we became good friends. We used to say that we were best friends who wouldn't recognize each other if we passed on the street. We remedied that about eight years later when two friends and I traveled to Block Island and made a side trip to meet Deb and Dan. Maybe I'll write about that some day...it involves Johnette, Evelyn, nun outfits, guns and seagulls.

Subsequently, Fran and I visited them on a trip East a few years ago. They served us a delicious meal and Fran and I gave Dan some helpful hints in straightening up the rock edgings in their yard. Hahaha! Then a few years later Deb came to Eureka for a 36 hour visit, during which time we visited the Downtown Post Office. She was in postal heaven. Listening to two postal workers talk shop is like being in a foreign country with no knowledge of the language.

So...Deb and Dan both work at a post office in New York state and up until a year or so ago, they worked the evening shift, side by side at a sorting machine. I don't know about you, but if Fran and I had had to work together like that, one of us (...not saying which one) would have already been pushed through the sorting machine, bundled, stamped and delivered to a location far, far away. Just having an honest moment here...

Anyway, it's a testament to their relationship that they survived years and years of togetherness at work and home. And it's evident that these two liven up the post office.