Karate Chopping
Lately I've been inclined to karate chop a lot of people. Things have been pissing me off. I feel that I'm capable of some pretty vicious karate chopping in times of stress. It's probably best that I avoid stress, but with my fourth move (fourth country) in six months sneaking up in just two weeks, this is just not possible.The latest of my potential victims? Any less-than-helpful employee at the huge home store where we bought our sofa. See, you might remember my enthusiasm at purchasing our beautiful L-shaped wonder back in February; the 24th, to be precise. y.e.a.h. it's still not here.
The sofa was put on order. The store doesn't keep them in stock but rather produces them only on order. Annoying, to begin with. Even more annoying is that the evidently commission-paid employee with whom we dealt stressed that our sofa was likely to be delivered by the end of April. APRIL. Fine. We're okay with that. But, we asked, what's the worst case? "Oh," she said, "it won't arrive later than the beginning of May."
y.e.a.h. Now, with this impending move, we've become ancy and Riccardo has called the delivery hotline twice over the last two weeks trying to light a fire under their asses. We were ever-so-politely informed that the store actually has the legal entitlement to deliver up to 4 weeks after the date on our contract (this is actually 6-7 weeks after the date range verbally promised point-of-sale).
Having nearly solved last week's stressbit: whether or not our movers will be able to move us on May 29th, with a phonecall from the company this morning and an assurance that it is likely, another problem has presented itself. The moving company will come tomorrow at 9:00 am to survey the contents of our apartment; after which, they will send their cost proposal to Riccardo's new company for confirmation. Our move hinges on being able to provide the correct weights and sizes of our belongings. With no sofa here to measure, we're screwed.
So I've just hung up with an employee at the store, who is asking her colleague to figure out if it is possible to cancel our order after I gave her the sugar-sweet "get it here by tomorrow morning or ship it to England yourselves" speech. I'm waiting for the CALL BACK. Of course, if the news is less than favourable, I will invariably post all sorts of slanderous comments about this company, by name. But we'll just wait and see...
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