had one of those days a couple of weeks ago
dropped off my car for an expensive repair
took a walk downtown
glasses fell out somewhere
apparently in the middle of the road
where they got run over
lenses survived
backup pair still in car being repaired
went to the backup of the backup pair
not the best
really not good if i had to identify a witness while wearing them
went home and sat on my couch in time to see
yeti the cat accidentally break my favorite vase
called my optometrist
who said the company that made my frames had been sold
they are discontinued and my lenses were custom made to fit in them
found a pair of the lenses online while squinting
now i await their arrival
as i track them all over the country
traveling in a bit of an illogical order
can’t wait to see where they land next
hopefully on my face.
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Tracking my package so far:
From: Staten Island to Queens to Indianapolis to Detroit back to Indianapolis then back to Detroit and still not here, who knows where next?
I hope they arrive soon!
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same! )
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Oh what a bother! I hope they make their way to you soon.
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fingers crossed!
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🤞🤞🤞
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Hold on there a second. If you didn’t have your glasses on, how can you be sure it was Yeti that broke the vase? Although, that does sound exactly like the type of accident that comes from youthful play.
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I watched it happen and olive the cat, is his polar physical opposite. yes, youthful play for sure, just like on Brady bunch when the family vase got broken!
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I remember that Brady Bunch episode!
and that is a crazy shipping route; I am sure USPS has their reasons… (at least I hope they do…)
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I think shipping industry is in a state of flux right now )
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maybe there’s a need for a flux capacitor…
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I hope those lenses find you soon, Beth, so you can find your way around again 🙂
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me too, they could arrive at any moment, or in 6 months )
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oh dear; you need a Plan B. Beth 🙂
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using the backups!
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‘Looks’ like you’ll have trouble ‘seeing’ your dancing shoes while your waltzing with Fred’ … oh is that you there Fred’ … the blind leading the blind … Oh I should be more kind … 🙂
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that is hilarious and so spot on, Ivor!
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Yup … I know what it’s like to be without my glasses .. !! 🤓😉
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Tracking bizarre shipping routes….😆
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hard to see any logic in the path
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Last year I bought something. It shipped from two hours east of me on Long Island. Driven through nyc to two hours west of me. Then meandered it’s way back to nyc….
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logistics are so interesting
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Sorry to hear about your glasses. I love to watch the tracking on a package because it takes the longest mysterious course to it destination. The US postal system has got to be the worlds biggest living maze.
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I’m always amazed when something makes it to where it was meant to be going
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When the new pair arrives and land on your face, Beth, you know they are worldly from the trip through many cities!
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right, they should come with a well-shaped passport)
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I am so sorry for your predicament! I’m afraid I did chuckle just a wee bit at the absurdity of it all. I literally walk across the street, pick up my frames from hundreds on display, get my eyes tested and they put them together on site. I only wait a few days. With everything that you have gone through, it seems to me that you should buy a lottery ticket. Your luck has got to change!
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oh, I find it all quite funny too, the universe can be quite a prankster at times. ) I normally do get my glasses locally, but of course they no longer make the frames that fit my unique lenses )
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Oh man… there are days where you’d just like to back up time, go back to bed and start over!
Hope your glasses arrive soon!
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yes, not really meaning to whine, it was just a set of circumstances, none of them good, and I was looking forward to the next day. and the arrival of my glasses! ))
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Didn’t come off as a whine at all… more of a FFS, can this day just be over already? 😉
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Exactly!!)
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🙂
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Been there Beth! 😕 And that Fred Astaire! That was a great dancer!
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I loved the combo, Fred would understand )
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I think so Beth.
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So this time you really didn’t have your glasses on?!? I hope they get there soon!
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I have glasses on, but not really the best ones for my eyes – so if you see some misspellings or odd words…..)
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My goodness, what a run of events. I really hope normal service is restored soon.
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I never expect it )
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oh my…. what a story! made me smile though which might have been your intention in the first place.
Had similar experience with a bathing suit I bought online some 6 or 8 weeks ago. Tracking brought nothing much, seller wrote that package had left premises, then 2 mails that it would take longer than expected, then further tracking links….. but no bathing suit! Didn’t matter as the weather wasn’t terribly kind either but still ;(
Then, finally, a long while since my order, it arrived, but couldn’t ever be tracked, was promised to be delivered into my hands at the end of a day (sent at 9:10pm!!!), waited up to 11pm, thought no, that can’t be right, got another mail the next day that it would be delivered today (day after) and wonder oh wonder, it was dumped in front of the house with rain pouring down – no ringing, no nothing, I only knew because I got yet another mail that it had been DELIVERED then and then!
It’s called progress. Hope you can read this!!!!!
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hahaha – yes, my intention I’m endlessly amused by crazy systems. glad you finally got your suit. my glasses weren’t in the package were they? )
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Ha, now that you mentioned it – had another search, nope…. and neither did I get the promised 50 Foto papers with a way over 100 CHF order of printer’s ink…. buying online is OK and often a necessity, but execution is another thing altogether.
Have you received your glasses now?
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Yes, execution is a whole other thing, you’re right. No delivery yet, but it shows they are now in my city, if they don’t send them somewhere else, they should be delivered relatively soon I hope
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We in New York did our part. The midwesterners need to get their act together! 🙂
The first line of that Astaire quote just blew my mind.
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Exactly- thanks, New York ! The quote is deeper than it first appears-
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Well, that sounds like “one of those” days. It’s good that you can make light of it 🙂 But I certainly hope tomorrow is much better!
And yes- even here in Aus the tracking of a package can be a mystifying process. I’ve bought things from way over the other side of the country which arrive in 2 days, while I waited almost 2 weeks recently for something that was coming from a shop located literally a 30 minute drive away! ( the only reason I made an online purchase there was that we are under eternal lockdown, so online was my only option).
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Oh yes, a new day always makes everything better. I know, shipping logistics are always a it crazy
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Y’know, the one thing I get frustrated with as I age is my deteriorating eyesight. I can handle the rest of it, so far, but my weakening eyes bug me. So I empathize with your wait.
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yes, it can be really frustrating –
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Good luck, Beth! Hope today’s better:)
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Definitely is!
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When I go on and on and on about something, my husband tells me I’m telling the story of Adam and Eve.
And that makes me want to go on and on and on some more.
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Of course!
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I’ve tracked deliveries all the way to the local distribution center … and then they just vanish. I had another due in two days, got a notice that there was a delay and it would be another week, then it appeared on my porch the next day. One from Amazon never arrived, so they sent a replacement, then the original arrived, so I had two. Hope your glasses arrive soon.
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2 pairs would be great – if a delivery ever happens)
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I am getting too old to travel but I like to send my luggage and track it on its journeys!
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So funny!
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what a poem
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Thanks!
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What an adventure! Hopefully those frames got frequent traveler miles!
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They’ve earned it!
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“Somedays are like that, even in Australia.”
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That’s right!
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I knew you would love that Alexander book quote. 😀
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I would say it sounds like madness but it just sounds like 2021 at this point. Good luck on the glasses.
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You are so right- thanks!
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Definitely not fun. Crazy but there’s a lot of that going around. More and more things don’t make sense. I’ve noticed that for sure. So hard to be without one’s glasses. Hope they arrive soon.
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i await their arrival and am anxious to see if they’ll visit other cities before returning to michigan
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Oof, some weeks be like that! I hope the next week treats you better.
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already on the upswing -thanks
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As someone who can barely function without glasses, I am completely sympathetic to your situation.
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hopefully not for much longer )
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I hesitate to write a response for fear you cannot see it.
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))
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LOL. That truly qualifies as one of those days, jesus. And still going, it’s like Final Destination 😬. Is that sort of tracking disaster normal there??
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right now it is, hopefully somewhat back to ‘normal’ soon –
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🤞
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Hope you get the glasses soon… I know I’d be needing a cane if that were to happen to me! 🤨 🤓
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I’m using my old ones which are not the best, but functionsl
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Oops that must be rough! Hope you get them soon… 🙂
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They came today!
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I hope they come soon Beth! The whole thing sounds stressful.
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it will all be okay – just one of those times when things happen all in a cluster )
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lol…I so understand. I have those days at least once a week. xoxo
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