cursed

[kaberett]

Today's scheduled Ruby Violet redelivery showed up via tracking as "due to be delivered on Thursday 22nd August 2024 between 17:18 and 18:18" up until around 18:19, whereupon it shifted to "Sorry, we seem to be running late" (or wording thereabouts).

On checking again a little under half an hour later, tracking had updated again! ... to claim that Delivery had been Attempted at 18:00, and to inform me that as of 18:34 the parcel was back at the delivery depot. :)

The doorbell did not ring. I was not phoned. I was not texted. There was no apparent attempt to "deliver to your neighbour". Indeed, nobody came anywhere near the front door to the building in a ten-minute window around when they claim to have Attempted Delivery.

If I am very lucky this time the outer layers of packaging (and insulation and coolpacks) will still be intact and doing their job! That would be nice!

Also, tomorrow I need (bowels willing) to deliver a stool sample to my GP surgery before 11 a.m., and A is probably going to have an in-office day, and if that weren't the case then The Earlier In The Day The Ice Cream Gets Delivered The Better, buuut...

I recognise that this is a fairly minor curse as these things go (though I note that it is at least somewhat contagious: A ordered Two slightly different Things from One Place, one for him and one for me, and a single package showed up today containing... the thing for me and not the thing for him) but I am still Indignant and also Cross about I Just Want A Treet. (Also I somehow managed to leave one of the ice cream flavours out of the order and didn't manage to scrape together the brain to request the redelivery swapped that in instead of a dupe of one of the other swaps. Sorry, A, it's only the salted caramel & almond brittle...)