First world problems 2022

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23 Hand Creams That'll Get You Through Winter

The Y-man

 

You're going to hate the new version when I finally get it finished

 

While on the subject of online grocery shopping - my first world problem for the week:

I get my groceries delivered and typically choose a 9AM-12PM delivery slot during the week so that I can get the kids to school and be back in time for the delivery, and then go out to do other stuff after lunch if required.

So twice in the past two weeks the driver has been early. Last week he turned up at 8:30AM - and while it might seem good to be early, at that time I'm either waiting with my daughter at the school bus stop - or I'm walking her to school.

It was less of a problem in the past when the driver would actually bring the groceries into your house and so if you didn't answer the door, they would actually call you (this has happened once or twice). But since COVID, they will generally just leave the groceries on the front door step - which in our house faces north and gets full sunlight during the day.

As it turned out, the drama wasn't huge last week because my in-laws were staying with us, so they were able to do the school run while I sorted out the groceries.

So needless to say that this week I got a bit grumpy when I received a text message from Woolies at 7:09AM telling me that my order was next in line for delivery! I was about to have a shower and take my car in for a service - they were expecting me there at 8AM (plenty of time to walk home and get the 9AM-12PM delivery).

So I phone the support line and get to talk to the painful Olive (seriously people - it's a bot - just give me the info I want and quit trying to make small talk - trying to make it sound more human is just creepy) - who informed me that my order was scheduled to be delivered between 8:40AM and 9:40AM.

So which is it? Soon after 7:09AM? After 8:40AM? Or after 9:00AM like I had actually requested?

I asked Olive to let me talk to someone and she fortunately agreed to get one of her human counterparts on the line. Naturally, at 7:20AM this meant being informed that the next available staff member was likely to be 20-25 minutes away before they start playing the incredibly painful and annoying Woolworths jingle very loudly while on hold.

I figured I had time to have a shower and shave - which was quite unpleasant while my phone kept playing that damned jingle over and over while on speaker mode. Triggered!

Eventually, just before 8AM I was able to speak to someone - but trying to make them understand that I wasn't worried about my order not being there yet - instead it was the opposite - I was going out and didn't want my order delivered then but at the time I had actually arranged - proved a difficult task.

Finally I managed to make them understand and after putting me on hold multiple times, he finally called the driver who informed him that he wasn't due to get to my place until after 9AM.

The staff member offered to call me back later with more information - and so I was able to go and drive to the car service place.

While walking back home (during the noisiest part of the walk of course - crossing over the motorway), he did indeed call me back and despite the noise I managed to work out that the driver had apoligised for hitting the wrong button which sent the alert far too early. Human error.

I'm okay with that - human error happens. It would have been far more concerning if it was a systemic issue which was likely to keep occurring.

So all was well in the end - the groceries arrived soon after 9AM and it was even complete, with nothing missing and no substitutions for a change.

But my point remains - early isn't always better!

 

Note to self: must not use this as my profile pic....



The Y-man

 

Instaban!

 

The url bar on my phone browser is too narrow.

My wife wants to know why I'm spending time on pertychat.com.au

 

I saved $7.99 in express delivery fees from JB HiFi by selecting Click-and-collect - but then the local store called to say they can't find the items their system says they have stock of and asked if I could collect them from their Macquarie store instead.

Cost me $11.40 in tolls to drive and collect them