Neither rain nor snow nor the darkness of night can separate Tennessee postal carrier (邮递员) Mailman Mike from his 4-and-a-half-year-old friend Carter Lawson — or keep them from their appointed rounds.
For the past nine months, the two have 1 up every day in the preschooler's Knoxville neighborhood for a few minutes of 2 mails together and chatting with fellow residents. Lawson wants to be a 3 when he grows up, and in an inspiring story, his mom said how the old mailman, Mike Crenshaw, has been a 4 to her son. "Anyone could just be like ‘Go away, kid, ' but Mike has 5 gone out of his way to talk with Carter, " said Cassie Lawson of the United States Postal Service carrier. "It's been really cute." Little Carter even got his own outfit (全套服装) to 6 Mike's. "I just couldn't believe he got a full mailman's costume, " the boy's mother said 7 .
"Every letter carrier has stops he looks forward to and this is the one I look forward to every day, " said Mike. "He's the ending 8 of my day, and the 9 part of my day, not just because it's the end, but because he's such a 10 little guy."
The man and the little boy's 11 isn't a surprise to Fredric Rolando, president of the National Association of Letter Carriers. Kids 12 mailmen because "letter carriers are a friendly part of the neighborhood who bring something to their 13 every day and they open their doors for letter carriers so they are also someone they come to recognize and
14 , " Rolando said. "It's the same for the elderly, but in addition, letter carriers may be the only person they 15 with all day, with no one to talk to usually."
