Chock-a-block

 

During the COVID19 pandemic in the small city of Orange, two nights ago, (about 7:30pm?) when we were video chatting with our daughter and her husband, she said… " oh there's someone at the door… the bell just rang"… she disappeared, then returned with an unopened box of 

 chocolate icecreams… which they then started to eat. We all tried to guess who would have done this - - no note or other indication. Then 15 or twenty min later, my wife said,"That was our doorbell" (i didn't hear it), she got up, and returned with a box of different chocolate icecreams. She thought she saw a small silvery(?) hatchback car driving away from our house down the street. We looked up and whispered thank you. My wife texted a thank you to someone with a little hatchback-ish silvery car we knew, she replied that it wasn't  her. The next day we thanked our Son in Law's mother.. it wasn't  her she said; then we left a message of thanks to another owner of a little hatchback, he rang this morning to say "Not me!", but he had heard of a couple who planned and executed a treat drop a few weeks ago. This morning i got a text from our other daughter who currently lives in our town to ask if we'd dropped some nice icecreams in to their place two nights back. I said "Nope!", and explained our situation. She guessed it was her sister. I said it wasn't,  but it had happened to them too. I told her about that other couple, but she said she had got some bickies from them, but they had said it was from them… 

A phantom blesser!

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Um Hmm... the plot is thick-en-ing just now.

We've heard of others who have had this thing

occur to them, as well, a knock or ring

of door-bell, and a package there somehow.

Just sitting at the door, a yummy treat,

like havaharts or drumsticks, chock a block

with special care and thought to where they dock.

No note, or indication, even bleat..

to give us here id-e-as of who sent

these goodies, to enhance the love and care,

of who'd be blessed that night that they were there

on doorsteps of some people who've been lent

a life on Earth, for over twenty years.

The only hint we have is "Small Hatchback

that's silvery", and trav'ling down the track.

Then whispered "Thank you" 's, killing off our fears.

Some clear denials, still no better off

at tracking who this culprit is who would

to sev'ral households plan to do such good,

but not to get their thank you's here. Tov*, tov!

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*  "tov", is the old Hebrew word for "good"; "tov tov" means "very good".

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