A moment of quiet contemplation between the mayhem. A penny for his thoughts.
I wonder if it was ‘in a few minutes I get a chance to really bark at the shopping delivery driver’.
Well he needed patience today. Definitely late delivery.
We are so fortunate to be able to book a weekly food delivery. Ok what comes is a little random but it so helps during these strange lockdown days. The drivers are usually really friendly and helpful. Today it was a new driver who looked only just old enough to drive the van. About an hour late the phone rang.
“I’ve been sat outside for 10 minutes and your not in. I’ve food to be delivered.”
Sorry but you are not outside our house.
“Yes I am”
Sorry I can’t see you on our drive.
‘Well I am parked on your drive”
Sorry but your not. You might be at the wrong house.
“Definitely not, I’m here”
Wait a second and I will see if I can see you….. I can see you. I’m waving at you. You are at the wrong house.
“No you must have used put the wrong address on the order. It says xxxxxxxxx as the address ”
Yes that’s our house address. It’s the one that has been used by the supermarket for 9 months. It’s the address to this house not the one your parked at.
“Are you sure…..”
Strangely yes I am sure. I’m currently stood outside my house and you are parked outside the wrong house.
*******
Finally the van arrived at the correct address. The food was delivered and then the deep philosophical discussion continued.
“That house had the same colour door as the one you included in your instructions..”
I don’t think it does. I put on the order that our house had a white door. That one over there has a brown door.
“It’s very confusing I bet the other drivers have struggled to find you.”
No you are the first to get lost.
“For the future could you add some more detail to the delivery address.”
So apart from the correct address, the correct colour door, instructions on how to get to our house from both village entrances. The ones which are on the order already – what would you suggest.
“Anything to make it clearer….”
*********
So on the next order maybe I should include the door colours that do not apply to our house. A note saying that it might be an idea to check the door number on the door matches the one on the order. And listen out for the really noisy dog. That should do it…
Our street name is a number written out. We also have a house number. So, for instance, an address might say 31 Eighteenth street. (That’s not my address). Delivers often go to 18 Thirty-first street. And, often, that is an apartment building whereas my house is, um, a house. 🙄 Maddening. 😃
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Wow that’s a good one. 😊
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Oh brother. They should throw in a free delivery or a discount for the hassle you endured for next time!
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I suspect they won’t.
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Lol! I need this laugh right now. I’m waiting for my procedure to start in the hospital, and begged for my phone so that I can pass the time. Thanks for the smiles.
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Thinking of you. X
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I would have been so peed with that. I would have suggested to him that maybe you should have a different job because its clear to me you don’t know the area and can neither follow instructions, or observe door colour.
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I kinda felt sorry for him
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What breed is that gorgeous dog?
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Accidental cross. Cocker with a little German fluffy Spitz.
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Wish someone would accidentally cross them again in my neighborhood 😀
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I know.
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Perhaps it might help next time to send a delivery driver who can admit he sometimes makes mistakes…
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They normally Are really good.
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That is hilarious, but in all fairness I did just receive a Christmas card a couple of days ago posted December 2020 from the heart of England to here in the wild of West Wales. 🎅
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I’m still waiting for a birthday card my sister sent last November. All her other mail has arrived, so I know she has the right address. I guess some postal worker wanted a birthday card of their own, so took mine.
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People forget things like post codes. Things go missing due to human error. Then there’s always the thought that it was in a shiny envelope, that magpies needed for their nest. 🕊 and yet it could still turn up. 💌
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I’ve done that last one a few times ❤️
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Mail has been known to turn up 50 years or more later. Don’t ask me how. But if it arrives 50 years from now, I will be 40 or so years dead by then. With no children, it will have no where to go but the dead letter file, lmao.
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Where does it go. We had a news item about a wartime letter turning up.
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Into a multiverse put office junction, circularly shaped, and then through every single- verse, which 50 years it takes to round the circle, and come back to earth where the address is finally meaningful.
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Must admit since the pandemic we don’t get any wrong address items arriving here. Use to get loads.
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Hmm. Maybe someone cares more now? Nah, just they got someone who knows how to read, I bet.
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Absolutely
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Never say never, for you might live to be 1,256 years, 4 months, 2 days, 3 hours and 5 mins (never underestimate the importance of the last 5 minutes to be kind and compassionate within). ⌛️ ⏳
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That is so so true.
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I experienced immortality in a poetry-novel I wrote many years ago.
https://rawgod.tripod.com/FirstLife/index.htm
I have no need to ever live that long. In fact, no offence to you, I know that was not your intent, but to me the suggestion is threatening. I know my spirit is immortal, but sometimes I feel like my ego is too, and my ego has no right or desire to be immortal. It drives this bus, but I want to be able to transfer buses every so often. Riding the same route forever would be boring, and also unprogressive.
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Canadian English. I need to learn that.
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??? Not sure I understand the connection.
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Here the accents, dialects and words are so different depending on the region. Like your relearning a language again. I guess it was the Canadian English with its own nuisances.
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Ahhhh. Okay.
Canadians don’t have accents, (unless you’re a Newfie, but then, you don’t even speak English). It’s the rest of the world’s populations that got accents. Those Welsh guys, no way to even understand them! (LoL)
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I’m 1/8 welsh…..
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So say 1/8th of something, then translate it for me please?
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Last time I tried Welsh I did my back in.
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Awww. I love listening to Welsh-speakers, or is it the same as Gaelic? But, I cannot understand a word of it.
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Just smile and nod.
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That’s about all an English speaker can do.
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It is
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It’s probably not even on the same continent now.
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I received mine after 2 months
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You got luck, lady.
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🙏
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Well it is a long way. I remember foot and mouth was announced we drove to my partners uncle in Snowdonia. I think I took the route your card took.
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Maybe, if you just stood out front, jumped up and down, and waved, they would find you next time, LOL
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Might have to next time with him.
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Those are the situations when you simply don’t know what to say when hit by so much ignorant stupidity😂😂😂
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The funny thing was he had his high vis jacket on inside out as well. Just remembered that. 🤣🤣🤣
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Oh geez, what a bummer! Now that the driver knows hopefully next time he won’t get lost!
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I’m not convinced. Just remembered he even had his hi vis jacket on inside out.
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I want your dog! Very funny story. We are having delivery issues too, because of the snow. I had to call one company and listened to their spiel about 35 times, a woman telling me that “in just a moment an agent will be excited to assist you!” EXCITED? When the agent came on I so wanted to tell her she didn’t sound excited but it would have fallen flat. You just have to laugh.
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If you don’t laugh you end up going even madder.
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Gary, Gary, GARY,
Don’t you know young people these days don’t make mistakes? They are told they are right, even when they are wrong. Their parents and teachers don’t want them to get a complex from making a mistake. Don’t challenge their perceptions of themselves…
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He had his jacket on inside out as well. Maybe it’s a fashion statement
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That made me laugh but I also admit I wore a tshirt to the doc one time after dressing in the dark
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We’ve all done it.
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Every time we order pizza, we all get to stand and watch the delivery driver pass our house several times before he realises his GPS is taking him to the wrong house.
It’s an impressive achievement because we order pizza from the same place Every Week.
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It’s a gift that keeps on giving
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Indeed it is
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You could always add balloons to your gate………………
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That’s actually a good idea.
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I did it for my SIL the first time she came to visit (bringing my Mum for her first holiday with us) so that she didnt miss the house.
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🙏
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I fully sympathise. I dread ordering anything online cos then i get inundated with all the images of my shed that they have left whatever in. Not one is mine. AND at no point have I even said, leave it in the shed.
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PS… When it’s not the shed it’s IN someone else’s door. The best was the time a book had been delivered to someone’s else’s and Amazon were cocky about it as in. ‘Can’t you just go and get it from that person?’ So I said, ‘Tell me how. She’#d been dead six months? You want me to grow wings? Fly up to the sky? Break in?’ The replacement was there the next day. ‘
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Wait till the drone deliveries start. What could possibly go wrong.
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A lot for the drone if I swipe it with a baseball bat.
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We had driver say the village road was blocked but the photo attached was for a dual carriageway which we don’t have anywhere for miles and miles…
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Obvi was on some other road. MILES away.
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Definitely
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You certainly have a lot more patience than I do. I have had a lot of problems with deliveries, especially Instacart, so dropped them. Even mail is getting worse if I have to shop online, which I do. I sent a gift to my granddaughter which came to my mailbox when I specifically added her name and address to “gift” order. Two days later I got an email saying, they find I changed my billing address….uh, no, I changed the shipping address….pita!
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It is getting worse.
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what a bloody ass, I mean, is he thick? Stupid? Yes! ❤ ❤
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I think so
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It kills me that the driver was arguing with you – as if you don’t know your own address. I’ve had that issue a time or two and have made it a habit to spell out the street name when calling restaurants because inevitably they get the street name wrong. I’m pretty sure I enunciate clearly enough….however….well, enough said.
Absolutely love the photo of Captain Chaos!
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I forgot to say but he had his hi vis Jacket on inside out.
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Maybe he wasn’t fully awake? LOL
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Maybe…
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🙂
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🙏
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Last week TESCO didn’t deliver at all – they had covid in the shop. This week the most bizarre of substitutions – I ordered a bag of easy peel citrus (an in what we used to call tangerines of similar). I got a net of four lemons. I can see that being a popular substitution in Julia’s lunches.
So it’s back to ASDA in a couple of weeks – they are not very efficient, but they are cheaper.
Good luck with your deliveries!
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Here Tesco is almost impossible to book. Asda slightly easier. Morrison’s we use as booking is easy but with added mad substitutions.
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I tried Morrisons but got bogged down in the website so cancelled the order without completing it. I’m not, as I may have said, good with technology. Two of my sisters in law work in ASDA, one wholly on packing groceries and they tell me the substitutions are all dictated by head office, not random choices by individual pickers. |This makes it even less comprehensible.
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Yes it’s not easy but eventually you get it set up and it kinda works. That’s bizarre.
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I did think of trying Sainsbury’s but cost, inefficiency and a condescending attitude just hold no attraction. 🙂
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Too funny that dude argued with you about your house😂😂 and his jacket inside out? Perfect!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
We generally only have problems with food deliveries. Not grocery, but postmates, grubhub, ubereats… that stuff. Google Maps sends them to the parking lot by our back fence. They’re technically by our house, but the front door faces the street of our address and the parking lot is on a cross street. You’d think that would clue them in.
The Cap’n is looking handsome and sweet… so deceiving😉🤣🤣🤣💌💌💌
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Oh my well, that was a pain. I have my food delivered. And I have had no issues except one. And I was doing the same thing as you on the phone with them, waving that they were in the wrong place as well. Crazy how that goes. 😊
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It’s funny when it happens. We must be some sight waving.
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Hahaha I know. Have you ever watched the movie Fotest Gump?well if you gave the part with him on the shrimp boat as he’s waving came to mind as I was waving lol😂
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🤣😂🤣😂 I know this scenario so well. Yes, many a driver has phoned us from the wrong house. Funny.
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Funny is good ❤️
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Yes, funny is very good. ❤
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It really helps some days. ❤️
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I have lost my patience with people. I can see the attraction of living the hermit life tbh xx
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Get the popcorn in xxx
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Popcorn and hiding behind the sofa …
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People… sheesh!!
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Mad
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I have a nice postie. We have little chats, but we haven’t been able to lately, he hasn’t actually said. I think it’s probably to do with the virus.
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No ours is really nice but he puts items on the door step then knocks and backs away yards until he sees you. Then it’s a wave and he’s off.
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Oh my gosh! Funny but yet frustrating I am sure! I am thinking he may not keep his job long if he gets lost too much!
Very cute dog! 🙂
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Yes he might struggle in his current career. x
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Cheeky kid
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Definitely
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another terrifically entertaining post 🙂
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Thank you sir
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Can he not read numbers? Wow. I hope he can read better next time?
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Hopefully last time we get him.
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I think he was having difficulty taking responsibility for his mistake.
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I think he is.
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