Vexation, thy name is UPS.

"Don't ya put it in your mouth..."

Oh, sorry. that song kind of sticks.

Where was I? Oh yes. I hate UPS. "HATE 'EM!"

Here's the skinny. Jeremy and I ordered a laptop from Dell. On the UPS website it said that the expected date of arrival was January 11th. So on January 10th, I wasn't expecting it to arrive and went to hang out with Jenna for a few hours(watching this movie). When I came home there was a little yellow sticker on my door saying that UPS had already come. I was a little frustrated about this because I knew Jeremy would want the laptop that day. So I sheepishly called Jeremy and told him the news. "It says they'll be here tomorrow from 2:00-5:00, so I'll make sure and be here then." So, the next day comes and I am running a couple of errands with my mother-in-law-- when we realize "oh, it's almost 2:00. We'd better go back." So we get back to my house at 2:10-- thinking "well, I'm sure he hasn't been here in the past ten minutes." Lo and behold, another yellow sticker on my door.



10:30-2:00 OR 2:00-5:00? Whaaaaaa?

So I'm really mad at myself right now-- thinking "who would have thought he'd be here between 2:00 and 2:10?" I call Jeremy all sheepishly again, apologizing for being 10 minutes late. He's a little frustrated, but not mad. He tries to call UPS to see if he can pick it up when he gets off work. In the meantime, I'm having a sneaking suspicion that UPS got to my house outside the promised time. Here's what I find on their website:

01/11/2006 12:59 P.M. THE RECEIVER WAS NOT AVAILABLE TO SIGN ON THE 2ND DELIVERY ATTEMPT. A 3RD DELIVERY ATTEMPT WILL BE MADE.

You may have noticed that 12:59 is NOT between 2:00 and 5:00.

Ok, so Jeremy lets me know that he isn't going to pick up the package, so I'll need to be at home on Thursday from 10:30-5:00.

I had a couple of things I wanted to pick up for my sister's baby shower that's on Saturday, but I didn't go before 10:30 in case they came early again. My thought process was "well, they came early yesterday, so they'll probably get here sometime around 11:00 or so, and THEN I'll get the stuff for Andrea's shower." So, I wait. I don't stay upstairs in case he doesn't knock, I don't take a shower or play any remotely loud music in case I can't hear him. 10:30....11:30.........2:30........4:30..(they better hurry)..5:00. No UPS. Jeremy gets home around 6:00. Still no UPS. Then at 6:30..."DING-DONG." Jeremy answers the door to find the stupid UPS man in his stupid brown UPS uniform. Jeremy politely signs for the package, and the UPS man doesn't even hand him the package. He just leaves it sitting on the front porch and just walks away. No niceties, no nothin' (a fitting end to this whole ordeal.)

You took a whole day of my life, UPS, and I want it back! "Oh, i probably would have wasted it anyway."

On a happier note, look how awesome my son is:



(I had to neutralize the negativity of this post so you guys would come back.)