‘Surrender your toilet paper’: NC mail carrier dresses as pirate — and people love it
Dressed as a pirate, Traci Gerber Lewis was on a mission to find treasure: toilet paper.
“Surrender your Toilet Paper Arrrrghhh,” her sign read.
Lewis wasn’t sailing the high seas. Instead, she was behind the wheel of a delivery truck in North Carolina, photos show.
Lewis, a postal worker in the Winston-Salem area, is wearing elaborate outfits along her delivery route — and Facebook users can’t seem to get enough of them.
“Love this!” one person wrote on the post about the pirate costume. “You are always spreading JOY everywhere you go.”
Lewis started sharing photos of her costumes last week, when COVID-19 cases were rising in the state. Shoppers have stocked up on toilet paper and other essentials, leaving some store shelves bare.
To help stop the spread of the coronavirus, N.C. Gov. Roy Cooper issued a stay-at-home order, with an exemption for mail delivery.
In a nod to people who are working from home, Lewis showed up to her delivery truck wearing a nightgown and rollers in her hair, pictures show.
“I was running late this morning so I figured I could get by with this!!!” she wrote. “Everyone else is working in their PJ’s why can’t I?”
Her posts called “mail lady quarantine chronicles” document even more outfits, which range from a unicorn to a shark.
“I felt sorry for all of these people who were stuck at home with not much to look forward to, especially the kids,” Lewis said Friday in an interview. “I think the adults like it more than the kids do.”
There was even the time she dressed up as the “unofficial state symbol of North Carolina” — a construction sign, photos show.
“I can’t wait to see you each day, I feel like a child again at 62,” a Facebook user wrote on the post, which featured pictures of Lewis with a construction cone on top of her head.
Lewis says she enjoys making people smile and plans to continue her costume tradition.
