Everyday Randomness

*Sigh*

Man what a day this has been already, and it’s only 9:45am. I stayed up late last night helping Lisa. She finally got her new computer put together yay! When she went to bed at 3am I tried to as well. I was dead tired, but once I hit the mattress my eyes decided to pop open. I laid there watching TV until 5 thinking it’d be ok because I’d have plenty of time to sleep in this morning.

*Wrong!*

My mom started blowing my phone up at 6am. I was so not even semi conscious then. I never heard the phone ring once, but Hubby got up at 8 to go get breakfast and run his errands. He heard my phone going off every couple minutes and thought my alarm was set. Nope. It was my mom and sister both calling over and over again.

My mom has this dead tree in her front yard. It was sitting just a few feet away from the front porch, so she finally decided it was time to get rid of it. Hubby has offered to cut it I don’t know how many times, but she’s always refused. Well my Grandpa let a logging company harvest some of the trees off a small portion of his land, so they offered to cut the tree for her yesterday. She let them do it, and I’m just happy the tree is gone. It’s dangerous to have it sitting there dead that close to the house.

So she called me last night to tell me about it, but she failed to mention that the logging guys cut it and left it laying in the middle of her yard because it was too small for their needs. Sheesh. So she’s been blowing my phone up all morning wanting Hubby to chop it up and get it out of her yard “before the rain hits”.

That’s her excuse for “come get this ugly thing out of my front yard”, but of course she didn’t feel the need to ask him if he could do it this morning. She’s just been blowing my phone up with messages saying do it. Sorry mom but he’s already got a million things he’s got to do today. Having my sister call to bitch even more isn’t going to get him over there.

Of course I agree with Hubby. He’s like “you know I’d do it for her no problem, but she could at least be nice about it and ask me if I have time to do it this morning. Don’t demand that I do it right now.”

If this was any other Saturday morning he’d be at work right now, but no. He decided not to work today because he has a ton of other stuff he has to take care of this morning.

Somehow though this got him all worked up, and we ended up getting into a fight. I think it was more or less because I wasn’t getting out of bed to answer the phone, so he answered it, and he got bitched at. I’ve had a total of 4 hours sleep. I was dead to the world! He didn’t exactly have to answer the phone you know!

*Sigh*

I seriously need a vacation.

*Pulls out brochures for Hilton Head rentals*

The beach would be seriously nice right now!

For those of you who don’t know at the end of January UPS announced they would be cutting left turns out of driver’s mapped routes in order to save gas by eliminated 28.5 million miles driven by UPS trucks.

The first time I heard this I laughed thinking it was totally bogus, so I did what I always do. I ran home and looked it up. Sure as shit it’s the truth.

Now, up until about a month ago I’ve raved about the fact that UPS is actually good in our area. I hate having things sent here via USPS because I’ve personally witnessed the mail lady stand in my driveway and toss my packages towards my front porch. One of them happened to be very breakable, and of course that’s exactly what happened.

UPS has never given me problems, and the driver on our route is an extremely nice man. He always checks to see if I’m home before leaving any deliveries. If I am he’ll bring it to the front porch for me or even inside my house if it’s heavy. If I’m not home he’ll walk down my long driveway and around the back of my house to put the package out of sight, then he’ll slip a note under my front door to let me know it’s there.

Last month my feelings changed drastically. About a week after I found out about the “no left turns” I started noticing the driver parking in the middle of the road. It wasn’t our normal driver, and he was delivering something to my Grandparent’s house, so I thought maybe he just doesn’t know if he can turn around in their driveway because it was the day we got snow. There wasn’t any traffic on the roads, so no biggie.

A few weeks later I saw the same guy do it again, and that kind of pissed me off because we live on a very dangerous road. Here was this huge UPS truck parked in the middle of the lane in a blind curve!

Then yesterday I got a delivery from UPS. This time it was my normal guy, and he didn’t park in the blind curve, but he still parked in the middle of the road right in front of my house. When you come around the blind curve you would have about 3 seconds to see the truck and react before hitting it. Then you’ve got a steep embankment across the road from my house, and at least one vehicle is sure to roll down it. I’ve seen it happen plenty of times.

We’ve got a huge driveway and plenty of room to turn around, so screw how much gas UPS thinks they’re saving. How is it good to safe gas if you’re creating a DANGEROUS situation? Making a left turn into my driveway, then circling around to pull out of the driveway is nothing compared to what’s going to happen when someone comes around that curve with a UPS truck parked in the middle of the lane!

This morning I decided I was going to call UPS to file a complaint, but guess what! It’s virtually impossible to get through to anyone for a complaint! There’s no option with the 1-800 #. There isn’t even a “general questions” or similar. I finally had to go through the option to check tracking before I got a human on the phone, and even then I was told they didn’t know how to contact for complaints.

So UPS, here’s my complaint. You’re going to be in hot shit when you’re getting sued because someone rear ended a truck sitting in the middle of the road in a blind curve! I guess you really don’t care do you considering in South Carolina all rear end accidents are the fault of the driver who hits you!