later on,

last night was my first "full" shift at fedex where I wasn't being trained or assisted. When I got home I knew that I had to take the trash out and I was stumbling around feeling like I'd been hit by a truck. I know now that I need more than 1.5 liters of drinking water, my boots are uncomfortable, and I need some grippy gloves. While in training, my packages were all going to TX, OK, LA. Last night, I was in a different area ( with some different methods and practices I wasn't filled in on until it was too late) but the charts showing permissible zipcodes were much shorter and in the new england area. I loaded duffel bags and nascar standees to maine, a gajillion boxes of what I can only imagine are lightweight chinese trinkets to booth bay harbor, lots of coffee to connecticut.
Electric lawnmowers, guitars, bicycles, bundles of drill bits BARELY held together by torn shrink-wrap. The BEST packages by far are the boxes of green mountain coffee. They smell heavenly especially in contrast to sweat and cardboard.