So who am I gonna get to blame here....
Silly Christmas present glitches
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Thankfully I can get away with writing this knowing that the Missuz isn't likely to see this before I get to tell her the sob story about how it seems that her intended gift was lost along the way and hasn't arrived yet.
This year I wasn't sure what to get for Mrs. Terpfan. We've been together long enough now that I've gone through just about every variation of gift you can imagine, short of the largess of an expensive Diamond Tennis bracelet or the equally extravagant "new car."
We've bought electronics for each other (new Televisions, video game systems back when we were young and newly-wed, VCRs when those were "new" and hot items, etc.), and I've bought her less expensive jewelry, clothing, flowers, chocolates, a Vermont Teddy Bear, an original Cabbage Patch Kid doll when they were impossible to find and other things I hoped she would enjoy.
This year I was in a bit of a rut, hadn't thought of what to get her, and let myself listen to the radio and hear the ads on the local sports talk station hawking "Proflowers.com" and their great Christmas deal. Order a bundle of Candy Cane roses for $29 and you could make it two dozen for just $10 more. Mention the keyword from the advertisement on the radio and get a free vase, and even a box of free chocolates too. I figured that it's been a while between getting the Mrs. flowers for a holiday (other than Valentines day) and decided that the offer sounded pretty good.
I checked online, couldn't find the same deal that I know I heard on the radio, so I opted to call their toll-free phone number and spoke to someone there that would take my order. Things were going well. The Mrs. was cleaning in another part of the house and I was using a low enough whisper that she shouldn't have been able to hear me placing the order. When I was asked for the delivery date, I choose today, Friday, 12/23 because I know we'll be running around like crazy on Christmas Eve and Christmas day. I also had the day off and was looking forward to seeing the look of surprise on my wife's face when the flowers arrived. She isn't expecting anything, in fact quite the opposite. She assumes I've spent my money buying video games and such and have nothing left for presents.. especially considering the summer trip to Disney that I used most of my money on.
In anycase, if you can't tell by now my present for my Mrs. hasn't arrived yet. It is coming by Fed-ex. I can check status of the shipment, but all it shows is having arrived at a Fed-ex location in Pennsylvania. No where near my house actually. That arrival time was very early this a.m. I guess there's still time for the delivery to get here today, but it's already later than 6pm, and I don't expect the Fed-ex truck will be coming back into the neighborhood now. A driver was here much earlier dropping a package at a neighbor's home apparently, but most definitely hasn't been by here.
So, I am left without my wife's present, and can't tell who I should be faulting. I guess I'll be calling up Proflowers later and getting some sort of compensation for this screw-up, though it won't do much to get me out of the dog house for not thinking a bit further ahead on this gift. Ugh, sometimes Christmas shopping is just no fun at all.
This year I wasn't sure what to get for Mrs. Terpfan. We've been together long enough now that I've gone through just about every variation of gift you can imagine, short of the largess of an expensive Diamond Tennis bracelet or the equally extravagant "new car."
We've bought electronics for each other (new Televisions, video game systems back when we were young and newly-wed, VCRs when those were "new" and hot items, etc.), and I've bought her less expensive jewelry, clothing, flowers, chocolates, a Vermont Teddy Bear, an original Cabbage Patch Kid doll when they were impossible to find and other things I hoped she would enjoy.
This year I was in a bit of a rut, hadn't thought of what to get her, and let myself listen to the radio and hear the ads on the local sports talk station hawking "Proflowers.com" and their great Christmas deal. Order a bundle of Candy Cane roses for $29 and you could make it two dozen for just $10 more. Mention the keyword from the advertisement on the radio and get a free vase, and even a box of free chocolates too. I figured that it's been a while between getting the Mrs. flowers for a holiday (other than Valentines day) and decided that the offer sounded pretty good.
I checked online, couldn't find the same deal that I know I heard on the radio, so I opted to call their toll-free phone number and spoke to someone there that would take my order. Things were going well. The Mrs. was cleaning in another part of the house and I was using a low enough whisper that she shouldn't have been able to hear me placing the order. When I was asked for the delivery date, I choose today, Friday, 12/23 because I know we'll be running around like crazy on Christmas Eve and Christmas day. I also had the day off and was looking forward to seeing the look of surprise on my wife's face when the flowers arrived. She isn't expecting anything, in fact quite the opposite. She assumes I've spent my money buying video games and such and have nothing left for presents.. especially considering the summer trip to Disney that I used most of my money on.
In anycase, if you can't tell by now my present for my Mrs. hasn't arrived yet. It is coming by Fed-ex. I can check status of the shipment, but all it shows is having arrived at a Fed-ex location in Pennsylvania. No where near my house actually. That arrival time was very early this a.m. I guess there's still time for the delivery to get here today, but it's already later than 6pm, and I don't expect the Fed-ex truck will be coming back into the neighborhood now. A driver was here much earlier dropping a package at a neighbor's home apparently, but most definitely hasn't been by here.
So, I am left without my wife's present, and can't tell who I should be faulting. I guess I'll be calling up Proflowers later and getting some sort of compensation for this screw-up, though it won't do much to get me out of the dog house for not thinking a bit further ahead on this gift. Ugh, sometimes Christmas shopping is just no fun at all.
