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someone-else-entirely · 11 months ago

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Today was an Adventure:

-ordered alcoholic beverage online a couple days ago, culminating in me running out into the wet street without shoes to catch the UPS truck

-impulse bought a heart-shaped mini Bundt cake maker (not just a pan, but a MAKER - you plug it in and pour in the batter and it cooks the cake for you)

-also impulse bought Lindoor truffles whose flavor was listed as "dark strawberry" and I know that that's just dark chocolate with a strawberry filling but "dark strawberry" sounds amazing as a concept

#gonna tell the Ordering Alcohol Online saga in the tags #mostly for my own sake/posterity #so I wanted to buy a bottle of a particular alcoholic beverage as part of a Valentine's day gift #but they don't sell it around here so I had to order it #now of course you have to show an ID and sign for the package when you receive it on account of alcohol #but I live on the third floor of my apartment and the doorbells don't work #so I had a distinct feeling I was going to miss the delivery #and I TOOK EVERY PRECAUTION #before making the order I called the company and asked if they could call or text me upon arrival #and they were like ''well we work with UPS etc. so it's up to them but try sending us an email about it it might work''#so I made the order and sent the email #yesterday I popped down to the business on the first floor and was like ''hey I'm ordering alcohol''#''if they knock on the door would you be able to sign for it?''#the person was like ''well I'm here from 8 to 4 so if it arrives in that time then sure''#today I see an email: order is out for delivery #THE EMAIL IS IN MY PROMOTIONS FOLDER MIND YOU. I WOULDN'T HAVE FOUND IT IF I WASN'T LOOKING CLOSELY #so I'm compulsively checking the tracking page all day #it says it's supposed to arrive at 7 pm #4 pm comes and goes and no dice #I leave a post-it note on the door: ''dear deliveryperson the doorbells don't work please call/text the number on the back of this note''#6 o clock rolls around. I am still compulsively checking #and then in the middle of watching a Brennan Lee Mulligan video with my bf I compulsively check one more time #''delivery was attempted''#so I hightail it downstairs in the hopes I can catch the UPS people #I don't even stop to put on shoes #I open the door; no one's there but I see the UPS truck across the street #I run out onto the Very Wet sidewalk in my socks #wait for a break in the oncoming cars and jaywalk straight to the truck #it's empty #I sit on a nearby low wall and wait until I see a couple guys in UPS uniforms coming around the corner

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