A Very Amazon Christmas
I woke up in the middle of the night last night and had a mini panic attack- HOW many days till Christmas??? Let’s just check in with Snoopy. Every year, it seems like it goes from “way too early” to panic time, with nothing in between. You know what I blame? Thanksgiving. What is Thanksgiving doing there at the end of November??? It confuses everything. I say we follow Canada’s lead and move our Thanksgiving to October. Now, logically nineteen days should be enough time to prepare for Christmas. But my sister reports that she was buying some books as gifts for her husband and was trying to avoid Amazon. So she started to order from another bookseller, but the books weren’t guaranteed to arrive before December 25th. So it’s ALREADY too late to order from some places. Amazon it is! I’m fine with Amazon, and I’m happy with them 99% of the time. But the other 1% of the time, I’m very UNhappy. Take my experience this past week. I ordered some of my usual staples- chia seeds, liquid stevia, and protein powder. A couple days later, everything arrived EXCEPT the protein powder. Hmm! I went to check the status of my order, and found out that the package had been damaged and deemed “undeliverable.” Now, what happened next is probably my fault. I crazily assumed that… Amazon would send me another one? But a couple days after that, I was notified that they had issued me a refund. WHAT. The problem with this is, that protein powder is my lunch on work days. In order to shorten my workday, I eliminated my lunch break and I just quickly drink a protein shake between clients. Because of this delivery snafu, I had two days of work with no lunch. On one of the days I brought a sandwich, but since you can’t eat a sandwich as quickly as you can drink a shake, I didn’t have time to eat it. I was very, very cranky. As soon as I realized Amazon had canceled that order, I re-ordered it, and today when I came home I found this: I mean… I’m just picturing the delivery guy chucking this on the ground. Why? Well, I guess it cuts down on wasteful packaging. I just hope my Christmas gifts don’t arrive like this. Do you feel like you’re ready for Christmas? – Thanks to a nice big Amazon order I placed this morning, I’m well on my way. Thanksgiving in October- yay or nay? Header photo by Wicked Monday on Unsplash