An Abomination
January 30, 2007
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Posted by Aubrey Turner
I recently received a package containing a fragile item that had been carefully ensconced in bubble wrap. After freeing the item from its plastic tomb, I did what every normal human would do. I set about popping the bubble wrap.
But this was no normal bubble wrap. It was some kind of fiendish facsimile where the bubbles were interconnected somehow, equalizing the pressure and preventing any one of them from popping.
What evil bastard thought this up? Is there someone out there who thought it’d be a good idea to make unpoppable bubble wrap? Must be a frustrated sadist or something.
Categories: Random Ramblings
LOL!!! Thanks, Aubrey, I needed that.
The other day, I got an even bigger surprise. I opened a UPS-delivered box and pulled out bubble wrap and a whole bunch of brown wrapping paper, but no product (I forgot to pop the bubbles). I sent an email, but got no response for several days, so I called. The company immediately put in a new order. Not five minutes after I hung up, UPS had delivered the product, obviously as a result of my email. So I called back to ask them to cancel the order they had set up over the phone, since I had received the product already. Now this was the weird part. Instead of just cancelling the order, they ARGUED WITH ME!! According to the idiot on the phone, they intentionally sent me the original empty box “because the product was on back-order.”
Huh? So, the one I had just received was actually the original order. As for the phone order? Ah, don’t worry about it, just keep it. I tried to argue with them about my keeping something I didn’t pay for, but it quickly became clear that if I didn’t shut up soon, UPS would be knocking on my door again.
That reminds me of the situation I had with FedEx once. I ordered a case (1000-rounds, 20 boxes) of .45ACP ammo, which was sitting at my doorstep when I arrived home one day.
Now a case of .45 is pretty heavy, so I was a bit surprised (not to mention thrown off balance) when I went to pick up the box and it only weighed about 5 lbs. It turns out that somewhere along the way the majority of the contents were lost (there was some damage to the side of the box that the driver faced towards the door…) and of the 20 boxes only two were still inside.
I called the company and they immediately started a new order and submitted a claim against FedEx and I eventually ended up with the ammo.
But someone at FedEx made off with about 900-rds of .45ACP, which is a bit annoying (that is if it isn’t laying in the bottom of some machine somewhere).