Hey Mr. Postman look and see if there's a letter in your bag for me

Do you notice anything strange about this picture of our mail carrier?  Look closely.

Yes, on Monday he wore shorts to deliver mail in six inches of fresh snow.  Now, you might assume that he's wearing them because he needs to do laundry and all his pants are dirty so he only had shorts left to wear, but no, that is not the case.  He wears shorts EVERY DAY.  Whether it's 12 degrees or 102 degrees outside.  

I already thought he was a little strange because he seems to go to great lengths to avoid any children outside.  Scary dog in the yard? No problem, Creed poking a shovel into the dirt as I weed a flowerbed?  He walks across the street passes our house and crosses back to deliver mail to our neighbor and will come back with ours later.  At least, maybe he will or maybe he'll just deliver it to our neighbor as he seems to frequently do or about twice a month, he just won't deliver it at all.  I thought maybe it was just us, but my neighbor brought it up and said she noticed the same things.  I seriously thought he might be deaf because he always ignores our cheerful hellos until the other day I saw him giving someone directions.

Every time I see him, it just gets weirder.  Like now that it's winter, not only does he always wear shorts, he takes the shortest route possible even if that means tromping through the snow on our lawn instead of using the shoveled sidewalk, and walking straight through our planters stepping on bushes along the way.

It's not just me, that's strange, right?