On Wed, 2011-07-20 at 13:03 -0700, Scotty wrote: > My new Hilsen has been on the truck "Out For Delivery" since 7:00 this > morning. Got my camera ready, my tools laid out and I am pacing around > my living room wondering if he delivered to the wrong house, got in > an accident, stole my bike, LOL. I wish he would hurry up. I have been > waiting 4 months for this bike but the last 2 hours have been the > worst. :-)
I wish you good luck. When I was in that status with my new MAP Randonneur, I went out in the back yard to get the parts together for the build. While I was out there, FedEx came, knocked on the door and went away. I saw the "Delivery Exception" report on the internet. Realized unless I spent the day out on the front porch, they'd only go through the same thing again tomorrow, and then the day afterward -- and at the temperatures we were having last week that would be impossible -- so put in for them to change the destination to a FedEx store a mile away. I visit the store the next day to ship something and learn it can take them an additional 24 hours to deliver to a changed destination. This even though the FedEx store is less than five miles from the depot! So I ship the package I brought down and go home. Maybe they'll phone later on. It is on the truck, after all, and Alexandria isn't all that big. Three hours later, it's gone from a hot but sunny day to a rip snorter thunderstorm with rain that's lashing down so hard the city of Alexandria issued a flash flood warning, temperatures dropped 30 degrees in fifteen minutes, and they call. Come get your package. So I drive down there through the downpour, turn into the 0 shaped driveway in front of the store, and find there's a tow truck with a disabled taxi cab parked in the middle of the driveway. No way I can park, can't back up without hitting a pole. And there's the store, ten feet away. With my frame. So I shut off the car and go in to get my package, and while I'm the store somebody comes in and starts going on about who left their car blocking the driveway, and they're going to call the police. Fortunately, the woman at the desk had taken all my info when I was there earlier, and by the time I got the car started and moved out of the middle of the driveway she'd brought the box to the door, and it only took me a second to grab it, stow it and drive away, up to the LBS. That was a week ago. It's still at the LBS being built up. It's been hard putting that out of my mind. Not supposed to be done until Friday or Saturday. Don't even think about it. Still, it'd be nice to actually see it. So far, I've seen this photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/mapcycles/5905585828/in/photostream and a bubble-wrapped frame-like shape we took out of the shipping box at the LBS. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
