So I decided on my maids dresses after getting the go ahead from my beautiful girls and I decided to order one in the size of M being as she is the closest to me and the least likely to change shape drastically between now and the wedding (the other ladies are all dieting, M due to her fantastic metabolism does not need to..)
Anyway this started a huge saga of emails and calls between the delivery company and I.
I arrived home form work on Monday and found one of those card things that they post to say they had tried to deliver but were unable to post as they need a signature, they said not to do anything as they would redeliver tomorrow... Well I called them as I knew I would not be in to accept delivery again and I really didn't want the parcel disappearing to their depot somewhere in the back of beyond that I would have to drive to, I agreed with them that on Tuesday they would deliver to William Hill bookmakers next door as they often sign for packages for us as they know us. Great, I thought... I will have the dress tomorrow.
But nooooo! I arrived home to another yellow card advising delivery had not been successful and that I needed to contact this particular company. Which I did, again we made arrangements to deliver on Wednesday to William Hill.
Wednesday I arrived home to the same thing again, they had not even attempted to go to William Hill, just to my door. I called the delivery company again and this time arranged for delivery on Friday morning between 8:30 - 09:30 they advised I would be the first drop so I arranged with work to be half an hour late on Friday morning.
Thursday evening I got home to another damn "cannot deliver card" I just could not understand what the hell was going on!! I called once again and they apologised and advised it must have gone out in error. I checked and double checked that delivery was all set up for between 08:30 and 09:30 on Friday morning to which I was advised that it definitely absolutely completely was. Satisfied but slightly annoyed I confirmed my arrangements with work to be late the following morning.
Friday morning came and found me standing outside my flat in the road absolutely determined not to miss the delivery driver this time, I had spent a sleepless night wondering if they would even bother ringing the bell so I thought standing outside from 8:15 was mean that I would not miss the delivery. It got to 9:23 and by this time I was sitting in my car which was parked directly outside my building and there had still been no sign of the driver. By 9:39 I had to give up and made my way to work.
I called the delivery company absolutely raging this time as I had wasted all of that time this morning. They calmly advised me that my package had been delivered to my address and signed by a J Brown. There is no-one in my building by that name so I was even more angry, they advised they would get hold of the van driver and get back in touch once they knew where he had delivered it. I eventually got a call back at 3pm saying it had been delivered to a hairdressers on my street at 08:31 this morning, they had no further information like the name of the hairdressers (there are 2 on my road) and I could not leave the office until 5. I called my gorgeous other half and asked if he wouldnt mind have a little walk to each of the hairdressers to find out if they had taken the parcel in. By this time I was having visions of a petite blonde hairdresser thinking her luck was in having a lovely dress just turn up for her at work and flouncing around in it. I was mentally throttling this unknown hairdresser.
I had a call back from my man in 5 minutes who had the parcel, the lady in question at the hairdressers handed it over quite willingly along with a handful of post for us that she had been waiting for someone to claim! As she is not from the area herself she said she didn't even know where to start looking for our particular address (our building is hidden at the back behind another block so it isn't even in a really obvious place!) so she had been keeping it hoping the person the post belonged to would realise things were missing!
Mentally my hands were removed from around her neck and peace and calmness washed over me. I even bought her a little thank you card.
Until I got home and discovered a pile of unpaid bills........
Anyway, all that aside the dress is perfect. It fits M perfectly and looks exactly as I imagined, I was unable to take a picture to post as she had hairy legs when she was trying it on & wouldnt let me. (I am not entirely convinced they were that hairy that they would show up in a photo!)
So here is a little taster for you all to enjoy.....
Anyway this started a huge saga of emails and calls between the delivery company and I.
I arrived home form work on Monday and found one of those card things that they post to say they had tried to deliver but were unable to post as they need a signature, they said not to do anything as they would redeliver tomorrow... Well I called them as I knew I would not be in to accept delivery again and I really didn't want the parcel disappearing to their depot somewhere in the back of beyond that I would have to drive to, I agreed with them that on Tuesday they would deliver to William Hill bookmakers next door as they often sign for packages for us as they know us. Great, I thought... I will have the dress tomorrow.
But nooooo! I arrived home to another yellow card advising delivery had not been successful and that I needed to contact this particular company. Which I did, again we made arrangements to deliver on Wednesday to William Hill.
Wednesday I arrived home to the same thing again, they had not even attempted to go to William Hill, just to my door. I called the delivery company again and this time arranged for delivery on Friday morning between 8:30 - 09:30 they advised I would be the first drop so I arranged with work to be half an hour late on Friday morning.
Thursday evening I got home to another damn "cannot deliver card" I just could not understand what the hell was going on!! I called once again and they apologised and advised it must have gone out in error. I checked and double checked that delivery was all set up for between 08:30 and 09:30 on Friday morning to which I was advised that it definitely absolutely completely was. Satisfied but slightly annoyed I confirmed my arrangements with work to be late the following morning.
Friday morning came and found me standing outside my flat in the road absolutely determined not to miss the delivery driver this time, I had spent a sleepless night wondering if they would even bother ringing the bell so I thought standing outside from 8:15 was mean that I would not miss the delivery. It got to 9:23 and by this time I was sitting in my car which was parked directly outside my building and there had still been no sign of the driver. By 9:39 I had to give up and made my way to work.
I called the delivery company absolutely raging this time as I had wasted all of that time this morning. They calmly advised me that my package had been delivered to my address and signed by a J Brown. There is no-one in my building by that name so I was even more angry, they advised they would get hold of the van driver and get back in touch once they knew where he had delivered it. I eventually got a call back at 3pm saying it had been delivered to a hairdressers on my street at 08:31 this morning, they had no further information like the name of the hairdressers (there are 2 on my road) and I could not leave the office until 5. I called my gorgeous other half and asked if he wouldnt mind have a little walk to each of the hairdressers to find out if they had taken the parcel in. By this time I was having visions of a petite blonde hairdresser thinking her luck was in having a lovely dress just turn up for her at work and flouncing around in it. I was mentally throttling this unknown hairdresser.
I had a call back from my man in 5 minutes who had the parcel, the lady in question at the hairdressers handed it over quite willingly along with a handful of post for us that she had been waiting for someone to claim! As she is not from the area herself she said she didn't even know where to start looking for our particular address (our building is hidden at the back behind another block so it isn't even in a really obvious place!) so she had been keeping it hoping the person the post belonged to would realise things were missing!
Mentally my hands were removed from around her neck and peace and calmness washed over me. I even bought her a little thank you card.
Until I got home and discovered a pile of unpaid bills........
Anyway, all that aside the dress is perfect. It fits M perfectly and looks exactly as I imagined, I was unable to take a picture to post as she had hairy legs when she was trying it on & wouldnt let me. (I am not entirely convinced they were that hairy that they would show up in a photo!)
So here is a little taster for you all to enjoy.....
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