The total package

I’m not sure if this story is the had-to-be-there kind, but I’m going to try it anyway because I have laughed at it in my head again and again this week.

Jenn and I have a weekly Skype date night / morning on Fridays. Last Friday she told me that she was running late to our date since she had to go to the doctor (she was sicky) and run some errands. While waiting for her to get home, I received a quick email from her confirming my postal code. I did, and subsequently I received three more emails consisting of “nevermind”, “argggg”, and “I’m so annoyed”. She told me later that she was trying to mail me a package, and the lady at the UPS store was useless. The UPS lady was laughing the whole time, saying things like “welp, sure hope it gets there!”, and insisting that she needed a zip code (zip codes are only in the US, in all of Europe the code comes before the city – which you would think would be something that somebody who ships packages for a living would know). While at the store, Jenn received an email confirmation to an address for BOLIN, and the lady said something like, “well, for f-s sake ahahahahahaha”. Jenn didn’t think it was funny, particularly being sick, wanting the package to be a surprise in the first place, and wanting to go home since she had a hot date. She thought the total amount due for the postage seemed a little low, but the package was on its way. I told her I would let it know when it arrived.

Monday morning I receive an email from Jenn that she answered a ring at the door that morning… only to find my package nicely delivered to her house. In Idaho.

We now know it costs less to overnight a package to Idaho from Spokane than it does to ship something to Switzerland.

Thanks for trying Dude. :) I’ll let you know when I receive the package for real this time.