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July 15, 2009
Frustrated
This is totally not the post I was planning to write tonight. That post was preempted by my annoyance. Why the hell can't things ever go right the first time?
It started with the fridge. The new one I got for my birthday. What can possibly go wrong with a brand new fridge? I wasn't home when it was delivered, but it arrived with a dent in the door. The delivery driver offered to take it back, or give us a 10% credit. Rex took the credit, I was thrilled to get it cheaper (I hadn't even noticed the dent until he pointed it out), it was all good.
Except the credit hasn't shown up yet.
A couple weeks later, we picked up a grill from the same place. I took it home in the box, in spite of their free assembly offer, since there was no way it would fit in the back of my van set up. I started unboxing it about a week ago and noticed a bow in the door, but then I got distracted by the kids. I didn't get back to putting the thing together again until today. There is a definite dent in the door, but it didn't look like it was going to affect anything functional, so whatever. I got to the point where I needed Rex to help me lift the box onto the frame, and that's when I noticed the whole front of the control area is pushed in. I think it will still work, but I'm not willing to keep this much damage without compensation. What I haven't figured out is *how* to deal with this. There are pieces all over the place, half the packing stuff is in the trash, and I'd never manage to put the puzzle back together again, anyway. I guess I'll try to just haul the giant bent up piece in and see if they'll give me a discount. Sounds like a fun way to waste a morning, right?
So I was all in a tizzy to write this "why doesn't anything ever work right the first time" post, but Rex and I rented a movie, so I unplugged my laptop to take it into the living room. Apparently there's a short in the cord for my iMac, because it went black at the same time. I thought it was a fluke the last time it happened, but apparently it's just one more thing that doesn't work the way it's supposed to the first time around.
Posted by me at July 15, 2009 8:22 PM