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A Propeller Chip, UPS Guy and My Wife walk into a bar...

RICoderRICoder Posts: 91
edited 2009-01-29 04:30 in General Discussion
So, I'm sitting home stewing because UPS messed up my 2nd Day delivery of my Propeller Kit and I decided to check the status AGAIN (knowing it was due that day). Look at that, it says it was delivered to the front door at 2pm, and the clock says 3:30.
Excited, I went outside into the snow, and there was no box to be found. I looked everywhere, and couldn't find it. So I did the obvious, I called UPS and asked what was going on.
Time passed, and I searched the perimeter of my house again...but nothing. Then it occurred to me...my wife had left with the baby to go shopping around 2pm...could she have picked it up?

This is where it gets funny (not, in hindsight).

So, I called her, and said "honey, did you see a box from UPS and pick it up" and there was a brief silence.
She said "Well, now don't get mad ok?" I breathed deeply...
She continued "As I was backing out of the garage I heard a crunch" I contained myself...
She continued "I got out of the car, and there was a box that I had driven over half-way and I just figured it was junk, so I threw it into the garage"

I got off the phone and went to the garage to find a box from Paralax flattened with a tire track on it. But the story has a happy ending.

It was a Propeller Education kit that comes in that plastic box, and some various other components and such. I opened it all up, threw together the test board and ran the tests...everything was perfect, no damage (except the plastic box is a bit cracked and messed up).

Comments

  • Carl HayesCarl Hayes Posts: 841
    edited 2009-01-24 07:58
    Well, see, RICoder, that's what the UPS tracking system is all about. The package got TRACKED at 2:00 pm, just as UPS told you.

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  • Paul BakerPaul Baker Posts: 6,351
    edited 2009-01-24 08:32
    ROFL, both posts very funny. Glad to hear it still worked, that would have been an interesting tech supprt call though if it hadn't.

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  • QuattroRS4QuattroRS4 Posts: 916
    edited 2009-01-24 19:13
    Question is - would she have been welcomed home had the trial result been different !

    Rgds,
    John

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  • SRLMSRLM Posts: 5,045
    edited 2009-01-24 21:40
    Reminds me of an old hobby... The company, LGB, built miniature railroad tracks and advertised their toughness by having an elephant walk on it and the train still safe right by the foot... Perhaps parallax can do something similar: an SMD board with a really thick ground plane...
  • $WMc%$WMc% Posts: 1,884
    edited 2009-01-25 02:41
    All I can say is

    If that propeller kit didn't work, I would have Busted Up that local Bar and the UPS Guy and then filed for a divorce!

    But the kit did work, So all is well.


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  • ElectricAyeElectricAye Posts: 4,561
    edited 2009-01-25 04:50
    I once came home to find a UPS note stuck to my door. A little checkmark was next to a box that read: YOUR PACKAGE HAS BEEN LEFT....
    And in the space below that was scrawled the words:


    IN THE GARBAGE.


    I thought it was a joke of some sort, but when I looked inside my garbage cans, guess what I found. mad.gif
  • WhitWhit Posts: 4,191
    edited 2009-01-27 03:14
    I have gotten a number of the boxes at Wal-Mart in the fishing supply area. I have one for my BOE and another for Prop Proto Board projects. They stack neatly and you can print and tape in labels inside the lid just like the PEKit.

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    "We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths." - Walt Disney

    Post Edited (Whit) : 1/27/2009 3:20:38 AM GMT
  • UghaUgha Posts: 543
    edited 2009-01-27 13:04
    ElectriAye: Are you serious? Did you file a report or something? Musta been one pissed off UPS guy!
  • Timothy D. SwieterTimothy D. Swieter Posts: 1,613
    edited 2009-01-28 10:22
    Excellent story RICoder!

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  • Carl HayesCarl Hayes Posts: 841
    edited 2009-01-29 04:30
    Just explain the situation to her, as follows:

    "Sweetheart, electronics is my hobby.· It's a really good hobby.· In the whole world, there are maybe thirty or forty really neat hobbies that might interest me.· Maybe fifty at the outside.· But just right here in our little town there are over a hundred thousand women."

    I'm sure that will straighten her out.

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