At 12:07 PM 11/19/2001 +0000, you wrote:
>I was not surprised to see that Pete and Wanda were first to find ESAK's
>Timberlin Park letterboxes. Which got me to thinking: has anyone else besides
>me come to believe that there must be a number of "Pete and Wanda" clones
>combing this part of the Letterboxing Realm in search of every new letterbox?
>How else to explain the fact that this wily couple is almost always the first
>pair of 'boxers to triumphantly find and stamp in to every new letterbox
>within a 100-mile radius of their home? Or perhaps there are "Pete and Wanda"
>impersonators among us who, having surreptitously counterfitted this duo's
>signature stamps, now go about the countryside pretending to be Pete and
>Wanda upon first finding a new box. What exactly is going on here?


All I know is that I have met Pete. By himself. There were others there who
can corroborate this. If there is a Wanda, and I only say if because I have
never met her, then she is a mysterious character indeed. Far be it from me
to suggest that there is no Wanda though.

My wife and I stamped in at a letterbox in Gorham, Maine this past summer
and noted that Wanda, by herself, had previously stamped in there too. So
someone is claiming to be Wanda. It wasn't far from Sunday River Brewing
Company either. I'm not sure if there's a connection there, but the beer
was good afterwards.

Actually, my kids and I have always felt that Dan & Melissa were the king
and queen of first stampers. They've been first to at least 839 of
Drewclan's 45,324 planted boxes here in eastern CT. We have met both of
them. Together. The same time we met Pete.

Wait a minute. Maybe there's a connection there too.

I have it.

Dan & Melissa are really Pete and Wanda, and the Pete I met was a paid
actor to throw us off. Wanda is probably a figment of somebody's
imagination. As for the Maine Wanda? Someone simply has a wandering
imagination.


Mark
of the 4-hearted Fittons

Anybody hungry? I make a mean Thanksgiving day meal, with the best Apple
Crumb pie you never tasted. The cranberry sauce is the greatest too. Come
on over. Pete and Wanda will be there. :-)

Happy Thanksgiving to all and please pardon my indulgence.