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+title: "That, I Didn't Expect"
+date: '2002-08-08T09:12:28-04:00'
+permalink: /that-i-didnt-expect/
+tags:
+    - grousing
+---
+
+Hi. You guys are moving me, and I’m trying to get some information about where my stuff is.
+
+— *Okay.*
+
+— Today’s the last day of my delivery window. And I got a call yesterday telling me that the driver would be showing up with my stuff this morning, between 9 and 12.
+
+— *Okay.*
+
+— It’s now 2:00.
+
+— *Okay.* \[Faintly disguised annoyance, accompanied by much clicking in the background.\] *Your delivery is complete.*
+
+— What?
+
+— *It says here that your delivery has been made.*
+
+— That’s not possible. I’m standing here in my apartment, where I’ve been since 8 this morning, and my stuff is not here. There has been no delivery.
+
+— *Yes, there has. Your stuff was delivered to* \[name deleted\] *Van and Storage.*
+
+— No. It wasn’t supposed to go there. It was supposed to come here.
+
+— *Well, you need to take that up with the broker. They sent it to* \[name deleted\] *Van and Storage.*
+
+— No. I told them and I told you the address here.
+
+— *Yes, well, it was delivered to* \[name deleted\] *Van and Storage, at* \[address deleted\].
+
+— But that’s my address.
+
+— *What?*
+
+— That is the address of my apartment, where I am currently standing, and where my stuff is not.
+
+— \[Annoyed and befuddled silence.\] *Let me call you back.*
+
+— Okay.
+
+\[A long period of waiting, accompanied by heart palpitations and the serious urge to drink heavily.\]
+
+— Hello?
+
+— *Hi. It’s* \[name deleted\]. *Your driver is on the way. He’s just stuck in traffic.*
+
+— So my stuff hasn’t been delivered after all.
+
+— *No. There was a change of driver, so they marked the stuff as delivered for some reason.*
+
+— A change of driver?
+
+— *Well, yes.* \[Embarrassed pause.\] *The first driver sort of quit.*
+
+— Quit?
+
+— *Yeah. And they had to send another driver out to recover the truck in Vegas. But he’ll be there soon. I promise.*
+