That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for September 04, 2024

/// Though he never had seen, heard or met her,

every day he tossed down The Love Letter.

Standing close to the wall,

Mia watched his note fall,

and she’d catch it, (although she knew better).

/// Every missive, unsigned, had been written

to explain that he’s hopelessly smitten.

In these words from above

he professed ceaseless love

to “the Reader” whom he nicknamed “Kitten.”

/// What he wrote, though generic, was sweet—

with requests that at his place they’d meet.

Mia never went there,

because she’s well aware

he dropped notes o’er each fence on the street.

She never saw her secret admirer but she guessed he was about 7 feet tall.

The bad old days before you could touch up your profile picture on Tinder.

Thing takes a part time job delivering mail.

Hang on a sec, I’m almost in the drop zone and the gardner is still crouched in the elderberry bush.

“I’ll have to see if the gardener can remove that ghastly thing; it’s been impaled there all week.”

Please don’t share our Wi-Fi password with everyone.

Desdemona is dreadfully dense/

Hence she dawdles beside the fence/

And she patiently waits/

For notes from inmates/

With a passion that’s truly intense..///

She’s being served a subpoena.

.

It’s a small subpoena.

Thank you, Thing, but I could have gotten the mail myself.

…..and if you agree to go out with me, this 50% off shoe coupon will be yours

She read the note stating, “When doing green screen work, you can’t wear a green dress. It just doesn’t work!”

Catching Mail in her dress before there was ‘Can of Corn’. The phrase refers to a grocer using a long-handled broom to tip canned goods down from a high shelf into his apron. In baseball slang it means a ‘routine’ fly ball or as easy as a ‘can of corn.’

But no, m’lady! Hasn’t thou seenst the price of stamps these days?

Are those patches on her dress or was that a fashion statement in 1860s Italy?

“Okay, I get it. I should have used a bookmark,”

Charles, if this is the same request as the last note….I told you I’m thinking……….

She had been expecting, and was ready for, him tunneling in under the wall at that spot.

“Well, okay… But it better not be a picture of your d**k like the last one!”

I have a friend who drives 5 miles to my house to drop off a card so he doesn’t have to buy a stamp. (??) …and why he doesn’t use ecards I’ll never know.

Psst – The secret meeting of the secret society will be held in a secret location written in secret code on this letter. Read it and immediately eat the letter to avoid detection by the secret police.

“Thank you for finding my bookmark! It flew away when the book fell.”

In its early days, snail mail was fraught with problems.

“You’ve been served.”

She didn’t have change for the postage due, so she showed the mailman her ankles.

“You made me drop my book, oaf.”

“Simerenya”

The penmanship beggars description/

and the reader may have a conniption/

Since the writer’s her Doc: /

She’s just dropping off a prescription.

Madeline (holding up dress) was expecting a much larger package.

The Love Letter: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Luigi Crosio" Wikimedia 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, and Brave search engines) in the browser address bar (or search for it using one of those search engines) and choose the first Category: found, and once there find the text string Love, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this painting. 

Again, a larger strip image is also shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3369 (September 4, 2024) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment, and using the dropdown menu (even larger, if you trim what’s after .jpg from the URL). I have added a comment there pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, 2 works by him have been used here, the September 27, 2013, strip being the prior. GoComics has deactivated the hyperlinks and removed the new lines in my comments there; but, perhaps the text remains informative.

Stalking has changed over the years.

Marco Polo for the mute.

Ever since her rich uncle died, the marriage proposals have been flooding in.

You have the money. Give me the last two chapters of my book.