Hah!
I zoomed home when I found that my bike was on the FedEx truck and out for delivery. I got have a nice snack and some coffee while I watched an TiVo’d episode of Pushing Daisies. I really enjoyed the show when it premiered and I’m hoping I enjoy the new season as much. It’s definitely surreal which, at least for me, is fish.
The first wrong was not reading what came with my Garmin. It has a charger, for one’s car. I don’t have a car. Luckily it is supposed to charge from a powered USB port and I have lots of those around. So currently it’s charging from my Apple iPhone charger – the old one, not the new one which has been recalled. If that works I’ll forgo the charger as I don’t need more of the darn things.
Then the bike came. That big old FedEx truck pulled up and boy was I ready for it.
Unfortunately the TravelCase did not come. I was…um…well let’s just say I wasn’t exactly happy about it. I opened the big white box and saw a wheel and thought, “that’s not right.” It wasn’t, though it is the wheel to my bike.
Granted I’m not thrilled. I’m sorry but I think small businesses need to do a better job than big ones when it comes to this sort of stuff. But maybe that’s just me.
I immediately called my salesperson and let her know that the case hadn’t shipped. She was right on it and I received email when I got back to work stating it would be shipped Monday via 2nd Day Air. I’m good with that, but darn, it would have nice if it had come packed in the box so I could make pictures of it packed correctly. Now I’m going to have to figure it out by trial and error and if you know me, lots of error. 🙂
I’m going to congratulate myself though – I didn’t yell on the phone. I’m sure I sounded a little disappointed, but I was polite, nice even (I think). Sigh. There’s no point in yelling though. My sales rep didn’t do the shipping and the bike was packed correctly for a box – it wasn’t supposed to be in a box though. 🙂
Anyway as soon as I can I’m heading home and putting it all together. We’ll see if I can handle that much. 🙂
Aloha!
Slower, cheaper, less useful…