---
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.*