For the past hour or so I was wandering around downtown LA looking for a mail box. Something I thought would be an easy feat in this major metropolitan area. Well, it was very difficult, even after asking three people and stopping by the post office to find that it was closed today. Oddly, they don't have any mail boxes camped outside the actual post office here.

After trudging through the city in concentrically larger circles hunting for a mail box, I spotted one outside the library, where a fairly large movie was being shot. There was a large green screen erected and a load of people sitting around talking.

As unbelievable as it may seem to some, it's rather commonplace in this city to see this kind of shit going on, and often times, it's fairly cumbersome. I cross the street and slink by the crew and security to throw my mail in the box. I get it out of my pack and open the lid and throw it in. Upon the satisfactory completion of my task I noticed that the mail box wasn't attached to the ground, and then I took a second glance at the logo on the side, it was clearly a fake mail box prop for the movie...

Of course I start freaking out and look around and grab the nearest crew member, and ask if this is a real mail box. The crew member laughs at me and no, and went on to tell me that I had to hunt down the props master on the shoot and get him to get the mail out for me.

I track him down and tell him that I'm a massive bonehead and used his fake mail box. He chuckles as he walks over to the box with me, while I scramble to tell him that he'd done such a great job making it look weathered and real. As if that helped secure any amount of wrong doing on their part, and consequently make me look a little less dumb.

So, he fished out my mail and said something smug to the extent of "There ya go, now you can go pay your rent." I thanked him and tried to get away as fast as I could, even though one crew member stopped me on my way to ask if I had, in fact, used their fake mail box. I conceded that I did, and she laughed again as I walked away defeated.