Ha!Ha!Ha!
That statement made me laugh right out loud because of the memory it brought back. You see, my wife used to work in the county courthouse as secretary to the county clerk, and one day she decided to order some magazine subscriptions so that visitors to the clerk's office would have something to read while they were waiting to conduct whatever business they had there. What my wife failed to notice was that one of the magazines came with a rather large hunting knife for ordering a 3 or 5-year subscription.
Sure enough, a couple of weeks later, a new magazine and a box with a hunting knife in it was on my wife's desk one morning when she got to work. She just kind of laughed about it because she herself had had to pass through the metal detector and put all of the metal objects in her purse in the tray (so that the armed guard behind glass could examine them) not 5 minutes before. So, she just sat the knife on the corner of her desk planning to give it to Herman (the head of security) when he came in on his morning rounds.
After a while, Herman came into my wife's office and stood there talking for a minute or two. My wife said if the knife would have been a snake, it would have bit him, but Herman didn't even notice it until my wife pointed it out. She said Herman's eyes got as big around as silver dollars, and he asked,
"How in the ______ did you get that thing in here???"
My wife said, "Easy, I just ordered it through the mail."
Then she went ahead and explained the whole story about the magazine subscription.
She said Herman just grabbed the knife up, turned on his heels, and quickly walked out the door - probably headed for the mail room. My wife never heard another word about the knife. I'll bet the people in the courthouse mail room heard a word or two about it though.
