Everyday Randomness

Finally Talked To UPS

I finally got through to UPS. Seems like if you mention filing a police report and contacting the attorney general they’re finally willing to talk to you!

Once I started explaining the situation to the woman she was all ears. Of course she claimed it’s the driver that’s at fault. I said ok I could see that if it were just ONE driver, but so far I’ve seen TWO drivers do it.

She pulled the “can’t turn around in the driveway” card. I said would you like me to take a picture of my extremely large driveway? Yeah that’s the one that I’ve parked a total of 13 cars in at once, and we could have probably squeezed a few more in. Yeah, I’ve had house parties. I know these things.

After we got all that out of the way, I explained about where I live, the way the roads are, the problems we have with traffic on this road, and the fact that you can’t see what’s on the other side of that curve until you’re coming out of the curve.

That didn’t phase her.

When I mentioned the huge drop off on the other side of the road, that hit the spot. She forwarded the complaint to the regional office, and within 10 minutes UPS called me back asking for a ton of information. They wanted to know the truck numbers. I couldn’t give them that, but I gladly gave them a detailed description of both drivers.

Then I said three nasty words.

No
Left
Turn

What? Both driveways are on the left side of the road? Why didn’t I say so! The man who called me back must have been looking at records and pulling up maps because he asked if the drivers could stop at the used car dealership that was showing near my house. I said the dealership is next door to my house…and it’s a left turn.

I was just about cracking up on the phone at this point. By the end of the phone call I had them agreeing that no drivers should be parking in the blind curve, and it’s quite obvious they can’t pull over on the right hand side of the road. They’ll just have to pull in our driveways.

Jenn 1 UPS 0!

I’m expecting a package that’s showing a delivery date for tomorrow, so we’ll just see how that goes. I’ll have my camera ready for them!