Worse things happen than this, well I know but so many little things have happened over the past couple of months, I'm compelled to put finger to keyboard!
New settee...Phone call on morning of delivery...."Sorry Mrs V but we were just loading the lorry and we noticed that your setee is badly damaged, so we'll have to reorder it! We'd waited 12 weeks already - Upshot, the company reordered as a priority and loaned us a settee to tide us over. 3 weeks later we got the new one now and very happy with it!
Replacement kitchen window - men came to fit it this week. Took out old window, put in new one....D'oh! They made it upside down! Don't worry Mrs V we should be able to sort it out for you this afternoon, however it'll mean we'll have to come back tomorrow to finish it off - that's ok. Back they came, they put it in, asked me to come and have a look....mmmm " that's not actually what I asked for..."Look, I can't even reach the handle without standing on a step, and to clean it I'll have to climb up onto the work surface, this is why I had the window changed in the first place!
Well here's the plans the guy said...this is what you ordered! Anyway I've got a copy of the plans myself I'll check. Went to the filing cabinet to get it...could I find it? The guy said I'll have to go now, I'll be back tommorrow to finish off! Hey hang on, errr. Cut a long story short, as soon as the guy had gone, I went back to the filing cabinet, found the plan and sure enough it was different to the one that he had. Got up next morning to find a dirty great crack across one of the panes of glass. Had to go to work first thing so hubby had to deal with it. Thankfully got profuse apology about the crack and the fact that the window was totally wrong...hopefully they'll be able to do it before xmas! In the meantime I'm left with a cracked window (aparantely not dangerous, but best not open it eh?)
Bought my hamster a new cage as the one he's in is a bit boring. Put it all together to noticed that a couple of the bars weren't actually welded to the cage properly! And the bit the wheel attaches to had snapped off - back that went " Do you want a replacement? No thanks I'll save up for a decent cage! (it wasn't even cheap btw it was £40!)
Bought what looked like a really good quality stainless steel copper bottomed pan set from Robert Dyas this week, as my old pans are looking a bit tired..Used the smallest pan to heat up some soup, washed as per instructions in warm soapy water and found that the inside of the pan was covered in water marks that wouldn't come off and the copper bottom had tarnished beyond recognition,and I had used it on a low heat on a gas hob,which according to the packaging was ok to do! It looked like they'd just put a thin layer of copper coloured paint on the bottom. That I've got to lug back to the shop today!
What is going on?!!!
Footnote - Just remembered that I've got someone coming round to see if they can fix the tv to the wall in the living room.....what's the worst that can happen lol!
New settee...Phone call on morning of delivery...."Sorry Mrs V but we were just loading the lorry and we noticed that your setee is badly damaged, so we'll have to reorder it! We'd waited 12 weeks already - Upshot, the company reordered as a priority and loaned us a settee to tide us over. 3 weeks later we got the new one now and very happy with it!
Replacement kitchen window - men came to fit it this week. Took out old window, put in new one....D'oh! They made it upside down! Don't worry Mrs V we should be able to sort it out for you this afternoon, however it'll mean we'll have to come back tomorrow to finish it off - that's ok. Back they came, they put it in, asked me to come and have a look....mmmm " that's not actually what I asked for..."Look, I can't even reach the handle without standing on a step, and to clean it I'll have to climb up onto the work surface, this is why I had the window changed in the first place!
Well here's the plans the guy said...this is what you ordered! Anyway I've got a copy of the plans myself I'll check. Went to the filing cabinet to get it...could I find it? The guy said I'll have to go now, I'll be back tommorrow to finish off! Hey hang on, errr. Cut a long story short, as soon as the guy had gone, I went back to the filing cabinet, found the plan and sure enough it was different to the one that he had. Got up next morning to find a dirty great crack across one of the panes of glass. Had to go to work first thing so hubby had to deal with it. Thankfully got profuse apology about the crack and the fact that the window was totally wrong...hopefully they'll be able to do it before xmas! In the meantime I'm left with a cracked window (aparantely not dangerous, but best not open it eh?)
Bought my hamster a new cage as the one he's in is a bit boring. Put it all together to noticed that a couple of the bars weren't actually welded to the cage properly! And the bit the wheel attaches to had snapped off - back that went " Do you want a replacement? No thanks I'll save up for a decent cage! (it wasn't even cheap btw it was £40!)
Bought what looked like a really good quality stainless steel copper bottomed pan set from Robert Dyas this week, as my old pans are looking a bit tired..Used the smallest pan to heat up some soup, washed as per instructions in warm soapy water and found that the inside of the pan was covered in water marks that wouldn't come off and the copper bottom had tarnished beyond recognition,and I had used it on a low heat on a gas hob,which according to the packaging was ok to do! It looked like they'd just put a thin layer of copper coloured paint on the bottom. That I've got to lug back to the shop today!
What is going on?!!!
Footnote - Just remembered that I've got someone coming round to see if they can fix the tv to the wall in the living room.....what's the worst that can happen lol!
