This Is Why I Love Park Slope Reason 1,344: Entitlement
Erica | Thursday, February 19, 2009 at 12:37AM 
From Daily Intel:
[A note] "spotted, on a mailbox at Carroll and Eighth Avenues this morning, this desperate plea: "MAILMAN: I accidentally dropped a copy of the movie 'HOT ROD' in here today. Can you please return it to the VIDEO FORUM on 133 Seventh Avenue so that I do not get heavily fined. Thank you."
Wow. I mean, I guess it is a simple request...and certainly is a pleasant enough note. But the fascinating thing (to me, at least) is that there is someone out there...in my very nabe, with the casual audacity to:
1. Even think of asking this in the first place...of the motherfucking mailman
2. Doing so without even acknowledging that this DVD return is a somewhat unusual request...certainly far outside the realm of a normal mailman's duties.
3. Provide no further contact information, which therefore;
4. Doesn't even allow for the possibility that the mailman *might* not do as they were asked.
Also, uhm....HOT ROD??? You paid $3.85 and rented the movie HOT ROD?!
I feel like someone took my brain out of my skull and scrambled it up in a blender...I mean, W-O-W.
I sincerely hope someone creates a worthwhile psychological case study based on this incident. And also that the mailman in question did NOT return that video.
PSlope WTF 
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Reader Comments (5)
This anecdote is like the money shot in the endless blue movie that is park slope. solid gold.
He should have left a tip. After all, isn't the mailman acting as a delivery person, as discussed in one of your other posts?
This is hilarious! I couldn't help imagining what the poor forgetful Millennial had to do to get that note there:
1) drop DVD in to postbox, which required putting on coat and leaving house
2) swear a lot
3) haul ass back home
4) write note (find paper and pen)
5) find tape to attach to note (or maybe blu tac)
6) haul ass back to post box
7) attach note
and resume daytime activities. What a horrible, painful life this person must live. I hope the post"man" left a note in return, "learn to be less stupid".
The poster minimizes how hysterical this was. It wasn't a handwritten note--it was typed on a computer, and there were multiple copies pasted all over the mailbox.
Maybe s/he could be fined for that, too. And for thinking the mail collector had to be a man.
Hot Rod is actually quite funny. Don't hate. "Whhy and I saying whhat what whhay?" "Everything."