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Oldtimer's disease meets detailer stuff addiction
Over the past month I have placed three orders with ADS. Yes, I know ... three orders. Why didn't I conglomerate everything into one big order and save on the postage? Because, of course, each time I thought I had ordered everything I needed. And perhaps I did order everything I needed. But within a couple of days I realized I *wanted* more than I needed, and so I placed a second order ... and a third, each time saying to myself, "Ok, Al, this is the last detailing order for a good long time." What can I say? When one gets older, the mind doesn't quite work as well as it used to.
A few days ago I received my second order. I carefully sifted through the styrofoam packing peanuts and removed my merchandise. And I sifted through the boxes again to make sure I wasn't miss anything. But what I didn't do was to compare my merchandise I found with the items noted on the invoice. You know what's going to happen next.
Yesterday my wife came downstairs to my office and asked if I had any trash to go out to the curb for garbage pickup. I pointed to the ADS boxes, and then quickly sifted through them one last time, finding nothing. And so they were picked up this morning by the garbage truck.
My most recent ADS order arrived late this afternoon. I pulled everything out, but a voice kept niggling at me. "I'm missing something." And finally, in the midst of the presidential debate, it came to me: where's my bottle of M81? I look through my office and then my garage. Nothing! That's when I decided to actually look at the invoices. Lo and behold, it had beens shipped in the second order, i.e., in the boxes that I had disposed of earlier today. Since I cannot find the bottle anywhere in the house, I have to assume that I somehow overlooked it. It has, I'm sure, already been deposited in the county landfill.
So lesson #1 is: double-check your order against the invoice and make sure you have received everything you ordered. And if there is a disparity, do yet again one more search through the boxes. Perhaps you will discover that it was hiding among all the peanuts.
And lesson #2 is: don't get old. The mind is a terrible thing to lose--especially when I didn't have much of one on my good days.
But this little bungle has one silver lining: now I have an excuse to make yet another detailing order. There have been some non-Meguiar's stuff I've wanted to order from autogeek.net, and I know they carry M81, and I do have a 10% discount coupon. Hmmm ... This will be my last order ... really ... I really mean it this time. "This time for sure, Rocky." Really.
Al
A few days ago I received my second order. I carefully sifted through the styrofoam packing peanuts and removed my merchandise. And I sifted through the boxes again to make sure I wasn't miss anything. But what I didn't do was to compare my merchandise I found with the items noted on the invoice. You know what's going to happen next.
Yesterday my wife came downstairs to my office and asked if I had any trash to go out to the curb for garbage pickup. I pointed to the ADS boxes, and then quickly sifted through them one last time, finding nothing. And so they were picked up this morning by the garbage truck.
My most recent ADS order arrived late this afternoon. I pulled everything out, but a voice kept niggling at me. "I'm missing something." And finally, in the midst of the presidential debate, it came to me: where's my bottle of M81? I look through my office and then my garage. Nothing! That's when I decided to actually look at the invoices. Lo and behold, it had beens shipped in the second order, i.e., in the boxes that I had disposed of earlier today. Since I cannot find the bottle anywhere in the house, I have to assume that I somehow overlooked it. It has, I'm sure, already been deposited in the county landfill.
So lesson #1 is: double-check your order against the invoice and make sure you have received everything you ordered. And if there is a disparity, do yet again one more search through the boxes. Perhaps you will discover that it was hiding among all the peanuts.
And lesson #2 is: don't get old. The mind is a terrible thing to lose--especially when I didn't have much of one on my good days.
But this little bungle has one silver lining: now I have an excuse to make yet another detailing order. There have been some non-Meguiar's stuff I've wanted to order from autogeek.net, and I know they carry M81, and I do have a 10% discount coupon. Hmmm ... This will be my last order ... really ... I really mean it this time. "This time for sure, Rocky." Really.
Al
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