For all you people out there who have come to think of me as someone who can be depended on to do the right thing, I have a surprise for you. Apparently I am either the most inept woman on the planet, or I have got a poltergeist on my shoulder. On December 9 (my late husbands birthday) one of my auctions on ebay closed with a $4.99 sale. As with all my auctions, I went and got the product, which happened to be 5 pairs of clip on earrings. I put them in a box on the buffet and printed my shipping label. I pride myself in same day shipping so I stapled the receipt to the invoice, attached the label to the package and drove over to the shipping center. A job well done!
That evening I was jacking around in the office and low and behold! The package with the clip on earrings was on my desk! Damn! I immediately emailed the intended recipient and told her that I had inadvertently sent her 13 pairs of pieced earrings which was on the same shelf. I told her I would immediately get these in the mail and she should keep the pierced earrings as a penance on my part. She was very understanding. I told her she would first receive the pierced earrings and the following day would be her actual purchase. So, I printed the shipping label, stapled the receipt on top of the first receipt on the invoice and the next morning scurried off to the shipping center.
A day passed and I got an email from the little lady in California that she had received the first box and it contained, not earrings, but empty jewelry bags. What the hay! I went to check on my plastic bag supply and what do you think I found? Nothing! I went to the desk and what did I see? Those wretched clip on earrings twinkling at me in their plastic bag. Grabbing them in my tight little fist I crammed them in the box. I showed the box to my daughter and together we sealed the box and held it while I printed yet a third label! This we attached to box, stapled the receipt on top of all the other receipts on the invoice and decided I must be losing it.
Last night I received an email that the second box had arrived and it contained bubble wrap! By this time I am doubting my sanity completely. Where are the damn pierced earrings that I so carefully sent the first day? I have a 2400 square foot house which I have turned upside down and not found them! They have got to be here some where. I sent plastic bags, bubble wrap, and clip on earrings (I hope). Now this is a total of $7.14 to send what should have been one item. I can see where I am going in the hole here.
My daughter decided that I must be wound a little tight so we needed to relax a bit. She treated me to a pedicure, which I have not had since Marlene went to Las Vegas and stayed! That will be reviewed on Hey! I Been There! in a day or so.
In the meantime, I am just letting you know that I am NOT infallible! So if you make an appointment with me and I don't show up, it is nothing personal. Know also that your secrets are safe with me, not because I am trustworthy, but rather because I forgot them. If my house looks like a hurrican hit it that is because I am still looking for my MP3 player and those damned pierced earrings!
And thank you, dear Amy, for being so patient with an old woman!
