Good Morning!
God has given us another chance to get it right (or at least not screw up too badly).
61F, going to upper 70s. Afternoon t-storms (it is that time of year!)
Gravel delivery was a fiasco.
Called first thing at 7AM. Our delivery gets bumped from first one to three loads to complete someone else’s job from Friday because they needed far more than they calculated, and somehow that became our problem, so our delivery is being pushed back to noon-ish, but ok whatever. Putter around house a bit, call back around 10:30 to tell them we are leaving to go up to th site (where there is no cell service) and get told the driver finished the other job and will be heading to us in about 30 minutes. GREAT!
Now, we had gone in person to place the order, I showed the gravel guy on an aerial map exactly where our lot is (because it is a lot that was subdivided from one subdivided from a big lot that was subdivided… so it doesn’t have an actual address…), I had made sights that said “GRAVEL” with an arrow showing direction of travel, which I put out - and before hanging up with him I went over everything again for how to get to the delivery site.
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so, we are sitting at our lot, I am greasing up the Kubota, when Lisa hears a truck in the distance coming down the road. GREAT! after a few minutes of no truck, she starts walking up and out to see where he is. And manages to, off in the distance where the dirt road comes off the pavement, catch seeing him driving off.
@#$&er never came off the pavement.
I try walking up our mountain for cell service, of course today it was barely one bar and wouldn’t hold connection, so back down and into the vehicle and drive two miles until I get service, call up, and allegedly the driver waited ten minutes but nobody was there and he didn’t think we were still there and that we left, so he left.
I explained that I explained that the first sign led to the second sign, all he had to do at the first sign was keep driving basically straight in and he would have seen the second sign 100 yds in, and from there keep driving straight, and that we had gone over this TWICE, once in person last week and once more over the phone an hour ago, and when am I getting my gravel?
by that time driver had another small delivery, and then he Had to have lunch, and he would be out there 12:45-1PM. (We didn’t get to have lunch. . .but he did. . .)
fine. We are here, we’re not leaving, I will be putting out strips of surveyors tape every 30-40 feet for him to follow.
go back, put up party streamers in multiple fluorescent colors. Lots of them. 1 o’clock. 1:15.
1:30. 1:45.
2 o’clock, lock everything up, drive out, get to cell service, cancel order. With extreme prejudice.
let us not even discuss how pissed off Mrs is, because somehow this fiasco is all my fault and I can never get anything right and…
wasted an entire day, if we had the delivery when originally promised I could have had it all spread, levels and compacted in by that time…
So went to other supplier in town, with physical maps I printed and annotated and marks and highlighted, and gravel is supposed to be first delivery on Friday morning.
I will now likely be making my own coffee for the next two to three mornings… because this is all my fault somehow, not the twerp driving the truck who couldn’t follow signs with arrows. . .
i hope everyone has had happy healthy safe uneventful blessed day!
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