I hate waiting
- Thread starter Miss Chicken
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Unless I absolutely have to be somewhere at a certain time, waiting is no problem for me. While waiting for furniture, you coudl read, write, watch TV, do cleaning, wash the cloths, mow the lawn, call a friend, so forth.
UPS = The Devil.
I had some new micro/palm audio recording gadgets coming in the mail. Got the tracking update today (when it was suppose to be arrive) that they've passed it over to the USPS for them to finish delivery to our home ~bangs head on desk~ I didn't want our mail-carrier delivering it because we're having theft issues with mail in the valley and I wanted someone to fucking sign for it. So now, I have waste time waiting at home, and get behind on a variety of projects, cause UPS fucked up the delivery.
I had some new micro/palm audio recording gadgets coming in the mail. Got the tracking update today (when it was suppose to be arrive) that they've passed it over to the USPS for them to finish delivery to our home ~bangs head on desk~ I didn't want our mail-carrier delivering it because we're having theft issues with mail in the valley and I wanted someone to fucking sign for it. So now, I have waste time waiting at home, and get behind on a variety of projects, cause UPS fucked up the delivery.
Which is true of most people but, but unfortunately I need to lie down in the afternoon because of my disability.
I just checked tracking for a package that was (notice the was) supposed to arrive today. It left Ohio when it was supposed to, traveled to Washington, and has now left California. I don't know where else it will go on it's sight-seeing tour of the States. Fwiw, I'm in Illinois. And the package should arrive Tuesday.
I hate waiting for my mom to find her keys, asthma medicine, and wallet anytime we go somewhere.
Repairmen. They give you a time frame of about four hours they can arrive, then they are usually running late. I finally got wise and now try to get the first appointment of the day.
I just checked tracking for a package that was (notice the was) supposed to arrive today. It left Ohio when it was supposed to, traveled to Washington, and has now left California. I don't know where else it will go on it's sight-seeing tour of the States. Fwiw, I'm in Illinois. And the package should arrive Tuesday.
I had a similar experience a couple of years ago. I watched the package go from the East to somewhere in Illinois and then back East again before it got around to getting to me. I never figured out why that happened.
Some of the shipping companies route everything through a single central routing center. Someone might be sending a package from San Francisco to Oakland and it gets routed through a center near the center of the US. Absurd as it sounds it's cheaper than sorting the packages in every city. The local depots just scan the bar codes as they transfer packages from the local trucks to the vehicles that transport them to the national sorting center.
I understand that, and it does make sense. But I've ordered from this company when they've used the same shipper before, and this didn't happen. If it had gone from Ohio to, say, Kansas and back, I wouldn't be complaining (and beyond this board, I'm not complaining at all). *sigh* At least it's nothing I'm needing right away. A few days' more wait won't kill me.
I hate waiting around for anything. Tradespeople, especially, because they're frequently late, and you have to reorder your day to be around the house waiting for them to call. Thankfully, I've found a pretty decent selection locally, who can respect an appointment time. I don't let my outpatient clinics run more than about 5 or 10 minutes late at worst (and that, only rarely); others can show me the same respect.
I just find it horribly inefficient when the world does not order its functioning around me (as it rightly should in all sane realities).
I just find it horribly inefficient when the world does not order its functioning around me (as it rightly should in all sane realities).
I ordered a new remote for my car a couple of months ago. It's an aftermarket remote that is discontinued. I finally found a store in New York that had one and ordered it. It took three weeks to arrive, partially because the store owner assumed that he didn't have one in stock and was waiting for the shipment from his supplier. He had two in his store all the time. It still took him two weeks to mail me one.
Same here for me, I guess that's why I'm not in to fishing.
Very true, the cable company gives you a time frame here of 8am to 8pm and then shows up at 7:45pm. It always wastes an entire day waiting on them!
I hate waiting for Godot. Bastard never shows up.
I hate waiting for packages that I can track online...
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/online_package_tracking.png
(Mods- XKCD includes a link specifically for hotlinking... that's ok, right?)
I will literally check my package multiple times a day until I finally have it in my hands. A few months ago, I ordered the first two BSG soundtracks, and was obsessively tracking those too. It was really frustrating because it would be in a city west of me, then it would travel to a city east of me, then it would go back west of me again, and it did this several times. I was going nuts!
I also hating waiting for other people. If we set up a schedule, I would like the other people to at least have the decency to show up within five minutes or at least let me know that they will be late.
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/online_package_tracking.png
(Mods- XKCD includes a link specifically for hotlinking... that's ok, right?)
I will literally check my package multiple times a day until I finally have it in my hands. A few months ago, I ordered the first two BSG soundtracks, and was obsessively tracking those too. It was really frustrating because it would be in a city west of me, then it would travel to a city east of me, then it would go back west of me again, and it did this several times. I was going nuts!
I also hating waiting for other people. If we set up a schedule, I would like the other people to at least have the decency to show up within five minutes or at least let me know that they will be late.
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I am waiting again. The furniture that never arrived on Friday is meant to arrive today. It is 8.41am here. I hope I don't have too wait too long.
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