Mr Sainsbury of the house of toothy comestibles, or more correctly those his employ, has let me down considerably. it is normal to receive a delivery from this emporia at the Beardy's Bastion antimeridan of a Tuesday, but due to the coming nuptials of Master Beardy it was necessary to be elsewhere making important garment purchase at the usual hour. Because it was discovered late that this clash would occur, the last available delivery slot yesterday was 21:00 to 22:00, which was duly booked and the evening meal was ad libbed.
There was no delivery and no communication from the shop keepers.
A call was received at 8:30 this morn from a very apologetic under keeper of the emporia with some excuse of 'mobile' failure for the delivery driver and alate return to the depot.
A replacement delivery was booked for 16:30 to 17:00.
The delivery truck arrived at the appointed hour and the man disappeared into the bowels of his vehicle to assemble the components of our delivery.
we waited.
We waited some more
And then we did wait longer.SMALL
Fifteen minutes later, the gentleman appeared at our for with a SMALL collection of items.
No chilled items he said. They were left out* he said. He had been in contact with the under keeper who had said she would get them to use either LATE the evening or tomorrow.
We said this evening^, so he said he would convey this to the under keeper who would call and confirm.
She has since called. I let Dr Beardy (Mrs) talk to her, but it has been confirmed that they would TRY and deliver this evening. Dr Beardy (Mrs) reported that the under keeper was perplexed at the error and contrite. Not sufficient I'd wager to make a financial recompense.
Nothing for dinner AGAIN, and a real possibility of running out of cow juice for my morning cuppa if no delivery this evening.
I'm not happy.
*I assumed that they'd been left off the van, Dr Beardy (Mrs) is of the opinion that they were lift out of the fridge on the van.
^The forthcoming nuptials may require another shopping trip on the morrow**, and Dr Beardy (Mrs) does not trust me to make what she considers an appropriate choice when it comes to tie selection.
**I'm waiting on the delivery of a new tie from an online vendor, and Dr Beardy (Mrs) has decreed that if it does not arrive in the morning pos, a new one will be acquired locally.
I'm also a little stressed.