Nofa, How dumb can you be

So you may recall I mentioned I was looking at a high tech sofa that Cindy saw at Rooms to Go.  I thought it would be cool if I could get it in time for the Super Bowl party next week.  I was originally going to stop after work to see if I could make it happen but instead I hopped on the RTG website.

I found the sofa online and was excited when I saw that if an item is marked as IN STOCK and you order before 2PM, often you can get it the next day.  When I punched in my zip it said my estimated delivery would not be until the 27th, not next day but still in plenty of time.

So I start stepping through the transaction and get to the point where I verify the delivery date.  February 4th pops up, wtf??  I choose the option to customize my delivery date, expecting I would be able to flip back the calendar to January.  Nope every day before Feb 4th was grayed out, argh.

So I hook up an online chat with one of the site reps.  They look up the item number and say that the sofa just recently went into OUT OF STOCK status which was why the delivery date flipped backwards.  They said the website data is not real time. Well that kind of sucks.  So I tabled the sofa idea, if I couldn’t get it in time for the gig I’ll just keep cruising along with my $200 Craigslist bachelor sofa and loveseat for now that has served me well the past nearly 3 years.

On Fridays I usually treat myself to a DD coffee instead of brewing it in the office.  I pulled into the parking lot behind a Penske straight body rental truck, probably a 12-16 footer.  Of course I assumed the truck would swing into one of the plentiful parking spots.  I watched in amazement as it entered the rather lengthy drive thru line.  What in the fck?

I thought to myself two things, there was no way in hell this thing is going to fit and how can the person driving the truck be so stupid and too lazy to park the damn thing.  Once the woman driving placed her order she finally realized the same thing herself as she saw the clearance sign was a good foot lower than the top of the truck.

So now she sat there with a row of 10 cars behind her with no room.  There was a a small turn off to her left but it was blocked by a parked car.  The woman passenger got out of the truck and went inside.  I got out of the car to survey the situation.  The woman apologized as I looked at her with stink eye.  I just said “uh huh…” as I returned to the Prius to wait.  In total she blocked the drive thru lane for around 10 minutes. It was a pretty amazing display of stupidity, the perfect way to start a Friday.

I will enjoy my one weekend break from race timing although I still have been quite involved with the half marathon aftermath.  The most recent task was generating mailing labels for the all of the age group winners that did not receive their prize on site because of the timing problems.

I have plenty of stuff to keep me busy this weekend and we also will have the dogs out for a Saturday night sleepover.  We will  get out to see American Sniper I’m sure.