Friday, October 5, 2007

Oh UPS, why do you taunt me so?

Yesterday when I got home from work, there was a UPS slip on our door. The XBox! Guitar Hero!!! So I called, and they said I could come pick it up that very night! SWEET!

So right after supper, I jumped in the car and zoomed over to the UPS center in Minneapolis. Then I stood in line for 20 minutes. Then I handed the guy my slip and stood around for another 20 minutes. Then I was informed that, while my package had come off the truck, it was not on the shelf and was probably somewhere on the conveyor system, which I immediately pictured as some huge, twisty, Terry Gilliam-type construction of DOOM. This seems to be not entirely inaccurate, as they could not locate it on the conveyor system, and I was sent home empty-handed.

I get to try again tonight. I really hope the line is shorter this time. And I would just like to say, I consider it a testament to my work ethic that I haven't developed a mysterious hacking cough and had to go home (by route of the UPS center)...

Best of all, later tonight I get to go pick up the Mixologist and the Wog! HOORAY!

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