<p>Hmmm, launched cookies, thumb tacks, banana peels… all evidence! That’s how you get caught people!</p>
<p>Ice is good in this regard except it’s proving to be a difficult ballistic material. You’re getting just a small glimpse at how difficult my daily life has become. Sigh.</p>
<p>The cookies were NOT supposed to be launched! They were supposed to be served with a SMILE!</p>
<p>^ ^ You live in Ernie-land, I live in Dick-land. We launch 'em over here.</p>
<p>The guy is hiding my daughter’s big letter. He does this every month with my subscription to Air Rifle Illustrated. He’s toying with me. If, and that’s a huge IF, there are any cookies involved then they will absolutely be launched.</p>
<p>5 PM?!</p>
<p>My mail conveniently arrives between 10 AM and 11 AM every day, which is when my lunch hour is. I’m sure everyone here is jealous of my ability to go home during school to stalk my mailbox for college mail. ;)</p>
<p>^ hahaha Dream! I would be jealous but 11 AM seems too early for lunch for me, I don’t have it until like 2 around here. And then I get home at 4 (my mail comes at 3) so I can at least get my mail and NOT GO BACK TO SCHOOL.</p>
<p>Maybe everyone should leave threatening notes in his or her mailbox to let the United States Postal Service know we mean business.</p>
<p>Yeah, it’s actually a terrible lunch time… I technically have 10:17 to 11:06 AM but of course it takes me a few minutes to get to and from school. I usually end up just coming home for a late breakfast or grabbing some food to eat later. I used to also have 12:49 to 1:33 PM free but I’m taking a film class during that time this semester. So at least I’m not desperately checking my mailbox TWICE a day, right?</p>
<p>… what’s wrong with checking your mailbox twice a day?</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure my neighbors—who run a daycare—think I’m whack. They’re always outside playing with the kids when I come home, and then I go through the mail and if there’s nothing for me in there I just leave the rest of my family’s mail there hahaha. But I end up standing there for like five minutes (I have a family of eight, so we get a lot of mail).</p>
<p>I don’t have a key to our mailbox so I always have to wait for my mom to come home from work (usually after 7 PM, ugh!) before I can check. Since I’ve been home with the flu all week I’ve just been sitting at my window watching the mailman put everything in and trying to see if he’s holding a large white envelope.</p>
<p>Dream…you are so funny. I can just picture that.</p>
<p>all these mail stories are humorous, maybe just what we need to lighten the mood…i personally hate getting the mail since I live in this condo complex and reside all the way on top of this hill. You should see it. All the mailboxes are at the bottom. I timed myself once. It was a good 5 minute walk. Haha.</p>
<p>^If your mailman’s noticed you, he’ll probably attach a post-it note attached to your application that says “Please stop watching me. Thanks.” Or he might leave tokens in your mailbox a la Boo Radley (minus the tree).</p>
<p>What a creative and fun thread (in the midst of all this waiting angst and anxiety). You are all deserving to be in USC. Wheaty, you are a dad? Well, you should be the USC student (cinematic arts, creative writing, or drama, etc.). Dream, you have to beg, borrow or steal that mailbox key from your mom. You are incredibly patient, again worthy to be a Trojan! GLTA! </p>
<p>Glad my sonny has heard from 2 schools with great merit $. Can’t believe how hard it would be otherwise. But looks like USC is out (NYC beckons vs L.A.; can’t go wrong with either city, says mommy of the applicant, who wants to go to all the colleges sonny applied to herself!)</p>
<p>My mailman’s name is Harry and he conveniently delivers my mail between after I get home from school and before I leave for track practice. I usually drive up my driveway as he is putting the mail in the different slots and then I run down to the mailbox and he’ll say “nothing today” with an apologetic face. However, this monday I got home and Harry had not come, so I left for track practice and got home around 5 and Harry still had not come. I started to panic that the mail was not going to come at all. Monday was the day the letters were supposed to reach Norcal too, so it added to the panic. It turns out Harry was sick, and this not so nice, lazy lady had to cover for him. She has been covering for him all week. I sure hope Harry comes next week holding an acceptance letter!</p>
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Most likely Richard’s sister.</p>
<p>First of all…his name is Dickie. Not Richard, not Dick…Dickie. And Dickie worked my neighborhood when we were waiting. Mail came like clockwork…late in the afternoon. It got so bad that I would stand outside the house waiting hand watering the front.</p>
<p>I mean, I knew that the girls would be getting acceptance letters. Insider information…but I was still a lunatic. Cookies, Sprinkles, Stan’s donuts…NOTHING WORKS!!!..but time.</p>
<p>By the way, Wheaty, they did nickname Richard Nixon “Tricky Dick” so feel free to christen your mailman with that name.</p>
<p>wow this thread just made my night :)</p>
<p>Okay- you guys and gals are so creative! I love it! If I had a private university, you would ALL be invited to attend- on scholarship- yes, even the moms and dads! Someday- maybe this fall- we can have a CC gathering on the USc campus- during check-in! Hope to see you ALL there… with your user names on name tags!</p>
<p>Or just the names of your mailmen/ladies on the name tags : )
Hoping for lots of Ernies for everyone! Or reformed Dicks!</p>
<p>Hahaha this thread is by far the most entertaining on the USC forum right now. I agree with all the claims of awesome creativity going on here! </p>
<p>The waiting is worse when a school mails acceptances in waves rather than just on one big date; then you can never be sure when you might get a letter. For schools that notify all RD decisions on one date, at least you know when to expect anything. Sigh.</p>
<p>Best of luck to all of you, including the moms and dads (you realize you guys are just as anxious, sometimes more, than we are? haha)!</p>
<p>Hahahah! With such creativity, I’ll be shocked if you don’t get in! GOOD LUCK! :)</p>