George Carlin: Where's my stuff?

Friday was to be a red letter day. My personal belongings were to be delivered. And they were. And then they were hauled away! Of course, I didn't know it. Until I went home at lunch to make sure they would call me when the truck came. You see, they, obviously, didn't have enough warning it was coming. I initially thought it would be here Tuesday, so I called the front desk and told the lady there that my personal belongings would show up that day and I needed her to call me whenever they came in. She wrote down my number and I figured, "hey, Im out in front of this thing, huh?" But, as good ol' Robbie Burns put it, "The best laid plans of mice and men gan aft agley."

I called her again on Wednesday, and again on Friday to make sure she knew to call me when it came in. The reason I wished to be called when they came, above and beyond the obvious one of opening my apartment door so things could be placed inside, was because I knew it was a large crate and would require opening where it was sat down. It contains something like nine (9) items ranging in size from a golf travel bag, a guitar case, three (3) 30x30x30 in. boxes, a computer box, a computer printer, etc., etc., etc. It's heavy and it's large. My assumption, and here's the beginning of the mistake, was that it would be delivered on a truck with a lift or someway of taking it off the truck.  The other assumption was that, after discussing this with her three times, the lady at the front desk would call me as we agreed.  Neither happened as it turned out so they came, she looked at it and refused the delivery, and SHE DIDN'T CALL ME!!!!!!!!

So, delivery has been postponed until Monday at the plant where we have equipment that can offload the crate.  I, meanwhile, am spending the weekend saying, "I think I'll do X...oh, wait a minute, I can't do that, it's in the delayed shipment.  Okay, so, I'll do Y...oh, no, can't it's in the shipment."   And so forth all weekend long.

 But, the good news is I shipped it Air Freight.  I could have shipped it UPS Ground!