30 pounds of garlic salt, anyone?

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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So it’s my day off. I’m watching* In the Good Old Summertime* on TCM, in my bathrobe, one red sock and one blue one, and the doorbell rings. Moment of panic before I remember my rent is current. Then I think, maybe it’s that dozen skeins of sock yarn I ordered? So I open the door to the man in brown, all excited about getting some knitting projects started up again. He says, “I just wanted to be sure you were home, you got five boxes.”

*Five boxes? * Did I go Internet shopping drunk again? Maybe my sister sent me a turkey . . . or five. The guy goes back to his truck, clumps down the stairs with the boxes, and I sign. I look at the labels; all correctly addressed, including my unlisted phone number. My name is not on the label, but everything else seems to be correct. As far as I can tell, the boxes are from Natural Foods, in Toledo Ohio. So my sister must have been the one to shop drunk, sending me over-the-top Christmas Care Packages.

I get the boxes inside, and call my sister. She has absolutely no idea what I’m talking about. She tells me to open a box. I say No, I don’t have any packing tape if the stuff’s not for me, if I have to send it back. So what? she says. That’s their problem, they sent it to the wrong address.

So I open the top box. There’s a packing list enclosed. The first item: 5# of 2.75" cinammon sticks. Second item: 5# 1" cinammon sticks. So on down the line, including 10# flax seed whole, 25# cinnamon ground, and 30# garlic salt.

I study the packing list again: shipped from Toledo Ohio. Shipped to . . . 4 W Main Street, Logan Ohio.

I’m in Seattle. I do not live on Main Street.

I call the 800 number on the packing list, and hang up on the tenth ring.

I know what I’m giving for Christmas this year!

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Ah, another successful delivery by OOPS. And somewhere in Ohio, some health food hippies are trying to decide what kind of side dish goes best with yarn.

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Damn I never get the good stuff, I could actually use cinnamon and garlic salt. Maybe not all of it but yeah, both of those are on my list for when I go to The Spice House next.

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Oh yeah, I love that place. I used to be a regular at the Evanston store.

I also got chili powder, poppy seeds, and sugar-free licorice whips. Par. TAY!

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I was so amused by the shopping list, I googled the address to see if maybe it was a restaurant, and I think it’s some kind of a hospital? What kind of food for sick people is made from garlic cinnamon and flax-seed?? Oh! Or maybe it’s some kind of herbal remedy…

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This is just great. I am from Ohio, and of course, my parents house (and my hometown) is only 15 minutes from Logan. I never considered it close to Seattle before. I wonder, how does one make that sort of mix-up?

Oh well. Maybe they will enjoy the yarn…

Brendon

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Bizarre. I was going to suggest that the vendor slapped the wrong external labels on the boxes and someone else got your order. This happened to me once - I ordered some 3.5" disks and assorted other items, and wound up getting a HUGE box of 5.25" disks from the same supplier, that was intended for some junior college in Maine.

But since you didn’t order any spices at all, that doesn’t appear to be the case here (unless the spice shop sells yarn as a side business…).

Maybe you should call the place in Ohio if you can track down the business number, and find out if they’ve gotten any unusual deliveries :wink:

Oh… and check your credit card accounts etc. A friend of mine got “hacked” (spyware, she thinks) and some bad people got her credit card info and sent a test delivery to her house before placing orders for lots of other stuff, to go to other addresses. She found out when she got an email acknowledging an order that she had never placed :frowning:

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It would be really funny if the hippies the spices were supposed to go to were strict Vegans.

“WOOL YARN?! Who sent us this animal-exploiting crap?”

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Then again, somebody’s in for quite a haul during the next doper white elephant exchange. :smiley:

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Done and done; no answer (so I emailed*), and no such suspicious charges.
*subj: what the–?

I am in receipt of your shipment, invoice #309693, comprising 5 large
boxes containing such things as 15# of cinnamon sticks and 30# of
garlic salt. According to the packing list, it was shipped from your
location in Toledo Ohio, to an address in Logan Ohio.

I live in a one-room apartment in Seattle. Seattle Washington. The
packages were correctly addressed, to my address, and even included my
unlisted phone number.

I only have one question: can I exchange the garlic salt for 30# of
Macadamia nuts?

Thanks.

–[lissener]

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Good luck with that one!

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Believe me, I 'll report back.

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You ordered a dozen skeins of sock yarn?

We are so going to have to hang out next time you’re in Orlando(ish). I really want to learn how to knit socks!

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Check with your favorite Mod. I understand they have quite a collection of socks stashed away in the back rooms where we regular members can’t see. :stuck_out_tongue:

Even some Concrete socks from back in 2000 – which makes me wonder what Lynn’s cousin has been up to. :wink:

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lissener… do you really knit socks? Because I had you pegged as a troublesome malcontent, but if you knit socks, I have a new Big Problem in my understanding of the world.

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Can we see pictures of the sock yarn when it arrives? I’ve started my first sock, and I just put ten sock-knitting books on hold at the Cleveland library to help me understand “turning the heel”.

Will you be needing a recipe thread soon? Oh, and that email just remeinded me I bought macadamia nuts at Sam’s Club…and now they are calling to me from the kitchen…

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Ah yes, a troublesome malcontent for sure, but yes, he does indeed make socks:

lissener-made 1

And sweaters, hats and gloves:
lissener-made 2

And dresses:
lissener-made 3
But wait! There’s more! He also does killer flower arrangements:
lissener-made 4
lissener-made 5

He makes the coolest hats like the one the little girl is wearing with a very unique process, and he’s also a great artist, and he also does the most amazingly wonderful, lavish, smart and eco-friendly fish-tank arrangements too, but I don’t have any pictures of the fish tanks.

How big is your Big Problem now? :stuck_out_tongue:

(lissener used to be my best friend, he introduced me to the SDMB, until the bastard moved to Seattle, now I hate him because he left me all alone)

I don’t really hate him, but he’s still a bastard for leaving

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:smiley: That’d be awesome!

It occurs to me that you’ve probably got over a thousand bucks of spices there, and possibly more, given that most spices are several bucks an ounce. It’s kind of like Shallow Grave, only spicy. Keep an eye out for the spice mob.

Daniel

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My guess is they had the UPS store pack and ship. Your yarn store had the UPS store pack and ship. The UPS store has idiots packing and shipping.

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If snails and slugs could read, they’d be squeaking “SkreeeEEEEEE!!!” and running for the hills, one millimeter at a time. :eek:
Still, I wonder if it melts ice w/o damaging the concrete…