I promised my dog I'd chase after the postman. The US government will put up with it for a little while with dogs, but turns out they think a human's either crazy or up to something no good, so they made me quit.
Our new postlady...(?)...postperson...?...mail carrier?… postal agent... well, whatever you call the person who delivers mail here... She thinks I’m a bit insane for a similar reasons... (barking)...
We have two driveways with a center “c” shape... the postalpeople will pull into the center section so they don’t have to walk all the way to the mail box and many times I can hear the truck as it approaches, so I’ll walk over from my shop to pick up the mail and any packages they may have to save them the walk.
The lady who used to deliver the mail would usually take a minute or two to sort through the mail and because she was looking down into the mail bin, I startled her one day... So l apologized and said next time I‘d bark or wear a cowbell... It was a running joke that if she was rummaging through the bin and not looking, I’d go “Wooo-wooo-wooof-woof-woof!” as I approached... which she always thought was funny... (she even barked back once).
So last summer she pulls into the driveway and is rummaging through the bin and I bark and she looks up in absolute confusion and horror, because she is not her, but a different postalperson of about the same general construction and dimensions as the previous her... Which really sucks because it’s hard to explain why you barked at the previous letter courier and that they thought it was funny and it was somewhat of a running joke.
in retrospect, the fact that I was wearing jeans full of dark red stains (I was staining some wood red-mahogany) probably made me seem at least 14% crazier and at least 7% more murdererish.
It definitely didn’t help that a few weeks later I was spraying a wasp nest near my basement window with poison when she drove up, and I thinking she saw me standing there, approached still wearing my half-mask respirator... apparently she had looked right through me and she started sorting through the mail... so she looked up as I was trying unsnap the mask and she just gasped and looked like she may have peed a little...
I think that freaked her out more than the barking.
So now I try to avoid her... though lately there seems to be a different deliverer of enveloped correspondence.
Hopefully I don’t freak this lady out too...