mailboxes and irony

I drove back from Qiao's place to mine at 2am. One of the things I wanted to do was to write a card to my sister (I had the cards at my house) and still put it in my mailbox tonight so USPS could pick it up tomorrow. The other thing I want to do is cook some food tomorrow for the next day, Christmas eve.

As I passed my mailbox, I saw the door was hanging open and the whole mailbox was leaning sideways. On closer examination, the diagonal support which holds it up was damaged.

My cams show that an SUV hit it right after midnight. The SUV seems to have missed its turn, so it backed up, and that is when it hit the mailbox.

I suppose it's good I didn't get to my house earlier tonight. If I had, the card would have been in the mailbox when it was hit, probably would have fallen out onto the wet ground, and then who knows what would've happened to it. I probably wouldn't have noticed the mailbox being damaged until later in the day.

So now I have a mailbox to fix.

During the summer, a car skidded out of control during a rainstorm and hit my side gate, damaging it. (Which I also found out after the fact, courtesy of my cams.) The side gate is behind the mailbox, and at the time I was relieved that at least the mailbox hadn't been hurt. I haven't yet gotten the gate fixed either.

many languages

The letter I received with my new health insurance card for 2023 includes an impressive sheet. The sheet says the following in many different languages: "To access language services at no cost to you, call the number on your ID card."

This sheet, and the languages included on it, are probably determined by law, but it is the sheer number (66) and variety of the languages included which impresses me.
Some of the less-common-for-me-to-see languages included are:

Bantu-Kirundi, Cebuano, Cherokee, Choctaw, Chuukese, Cushitic-Oromo, Gujarati, Igbo, Ilocano, Kru-Bassa, Marshallese, Micronesian-Ponapean, Navajo, Nilotic-Dinka, Pennsylvanian Dutch, Sudanic Fulfulde, and Yoruba.