It’s beginning to look a lot like a [Betty] White Christmas

I stopped by the post office to get some “love” stamps and some holiday stamps.

Two things happened while I was in line with about 8 people ahead of me:

• I noticed on a rotating ad electronic display sign that there existed such a thing as Betty White stamps!
• One of the clerks made an announcement: “If you’re in line to buy holiday stamps, we’re out of them at the counter, but you can use the self-service kiosk to get up to 100 of them.”

My first thought was, “OMG, there are Betty White stamps??? Those would make perfect holiday stamps, as underneath each on the envelope, we could write, “Here’s to a White Christmas.”

I stayed in line and after getting some love stamps:

I asked the clerk for two books of Betty White stamps, to which he replied: “Those came in two weeks ago, and we were completely sold out of them in 2 hours.”

I asked if any more would be coming in before Christmas, and he said, “We have no way of knowing.” And I said, “Okay, I’ll just take the love stamps then,” paid for them and got in line for the holiday stamps at the kiosk.

The lady 4 ahead of me at the kiosk was buying 100 of them, and the machine printed 10 stamps at a time, with a few seconds between them to, I guess, load the next 10 into memory. Whatever.

Many minutes later, after wondering why they couldn’t just print more Betty White stamps, I bought 20 of the holiday stamps of which it only offered 2 of the 4 designs — the wreath and the cardinals — which I was fine with.