The Mystery

Around 1 PM this afternoon I happened to glance out my front door window and I saw a newspaper on the step, pushed slightly under the porch door. Sometimes the local newspaper runs a promotion where they send the paper to non-subscribers trying to entice them to subscribe. However, I thought it was odd since when the paper is delivered, it is early in the morning. Usually between 5-7 AM. I know it wasn't there earlier because I was outside around 11 and it wasn't there. Also, the paper had just a few water spots on it. It is a warm day, causing snow to melt and drip off the roof. If it had been there for any length of time it would have been soaked. I find it puzzling since my dogs will bark anytime someone comes near the house. Yet, someone was obviously at my front door, and they never made a peep.

Once I got inside and started looking at the paper, and the news was old. The front page had something about Sandra Dee's death. I looked at the date and the newspaper is from 2/21/05. Even though it was an old paper, it doesn't looked "used". Not one crinkle or crease. This made this mystery even more puzzling. I thought that perhaps there was a message that I missed that someone wanted to make sure I saw. I checked the personals and the legal notices, and there was nothing which needed my attention.

It is just weird. The only thing that stands out about 2/21 is that was the first day that Joe went from working locally to driving over the road.