As you can tell (hopefully) by now- I’m a pretty chill, fun having guy, always ready for excitement- right???
So here is where things go bad! I make my first order yesterday WITH OVERNIGHT SHIPPING!! I’m excited as you can imagine
…“tomorrow I will start my journal!!” thoughts running all through my head. “What will the results be like?? Will she respond slow or quick? How amazing will I feel? What new business will I capture?!!!” Yep, I’m on overload. So I sleep (kind of).
Wake up in the morning and its a gorgeous day (76 degrees, clear blues, and mildly humid). Shower and prep. Dress for success and a spritz of Aqua Di Gio to top it all off. Wifey crafts the usual espresso and breakfast sandwich. The AD goods will arrive before 10:30- so we chill out and talk before heading into office. Excitement building as I wait.
10:30am comes and goes. Be patient I tell myself- they dont exactly mean before 10:30 justification sets in. I wait.
11:00am comes and goes. Our FedEx guys are pretty reliable and no sight of them yet. I get concerned. Get my tracking# and call the FE number provided. Recording tells me package now scheduled to be delivered NLT 12:00pm. I’m patient and unexcited (<-- yeah right!!), so I wait.
12:00pm comes. Low and behold FedEx truck nearby downstairs. I go back in chilling out waiting for the delivery.
12:15pm No more truck and no delivery. Huh???
Yep you heard me. Nada.
So with the fury of 1000 wet hens, I once again call FE. Recording. I respond with tracking. Recording bores me with options! I firmly say, “Operator!!”…“Transferring you to a FedEx representative”, I hear back. A nice lady then gets on the phone, and I immediately begin to explain that I know it is not her fault but …“I paid for overnight shipping so that I would get it before 10:30am. I wait until 10:30. Nothing!!! Then I’m informed it will be 12:00pm. 12:15pm passes and I still do not have my shipment!!!” This is ridiculous!! Where is my package!!!"
She proceeds to apologize and tell me that the package is in Tennessee (700 miles away) because the plane is having mechanical difficulties. Really??? Overnight Shipping gets me a package that is stuck in Tennessee because FedEx’s plane is broke. To add insult to injury- she suggests that they can have the package delivered on Monday???!!! Freakin Monday?? (In case anyone needs help understanding since FedEx clearly does- Friday to freakin Monday is not OVERNIGHT!! Its OVER3NIGHTS!!! Is that an option!) I calm down and ask her, to find out if there is another plane they have that will get the shipments out today. “I will have to send a request to Memphis, TN to find out”, she says. “Please do so and call me back”, I respond.
So here I sit (2:30pm)- waiting. Waiting for my beloved Mones
Beginning a journal that otherwise would be fun to read- or at least to write. But instead knowing the truth of the saying:
“Good things come to those who wait”- but waiting is the crappy part. I would lighten up and get in a good mood. But that’s stuck in a bottle in freaking Tennessee right now
Help???
Does anyone feel my pain??!!! (If not. Its ok- I’m a big boy
I just needed the rant. LOL.)
Welcome to my journal and thanks for listening ![]()
M$
PS. I will begin the good posts once I receive my package I guess ![]()