Happy Belated New Years Post Everybody!
In honor of the fact that this is a belated New Years Post, I am going to tell you the tale of the belated Christmas Presents that we sent to my cousins in California.
My mother is an intelligent woman who understands that people are strangely dumb with delivering packages on time, especially with the influx of Christmas gifts. So, she sent the presents by express, or whatever the super-fast shipping that costs extra money is called, on December 8th. By Christmas, the presents still ahdn't arrived. The conclusion that my mom and my aunt reached was that the presents had in fact arrived but that they had been stolen off of the front porch.
I had a hard time imagining the kind of person who would randomly steal packages that turned out to contain Christmas presents for children, but I guess that it takes all kinds or something like that.
Anyway, the presents were not stolen and arrived on the 29th, which is only 21 FLIPPIN' DAYS after they were sent.
Intrigued, my mom found the tracking number for the presents and looked up there travel path. The path went a little something like this:
December 8th: Presents sent!
December 11th: Presents in California! The wrong part of California....
December 13thish: Presents in Maryland for some unknown reason!!
December 13thish-December 26thish: Presents chillin' in Maryland!!!
December 27th: Presents in North Carolina (the state of my birth)!!!!!
December 29th: Presents are FINALLY where they belong in the right part of California. My cousins enjoy belated Christmas gifts.
I have recently ordered my school books for next semester. They are supposed to be here by Wednesday afternoon, but I am concerned about them arriving in time now. I have no faith in the US Postal System.
If they do not get here in time and parents have to ship them to my college, I may cry a little bit...
ModernHelen
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