Why it’s good when UPS is wrong

I’ve been keeping an eye on the shipping progress of my Digital Rebel for the last couple of days. The first day it said that it had left Memphis, Tennessee, and the next day it arrived in Dallas, Texas. I figured it was a good sign that it was heading in the right direction. Its scheduled delivery was Monday the twelfth.

This morning, for some reason, the website said that the package had been scanned upon arrival in Kentucky… KENTUCKY! In case you were not recently forced to refresh your geographical knowledge of the United States, I will remind you: Kentucky is RIGHT NEXT TO TENNESSEE! And it is DEFINITELY not closer to Oregon than Texas is. I was a bit confused by the fact that my camera had trekked all the way to Texas and then turned around and headed straight back instead of travelling the rest of the way to my house! But I nevertheless trusted the website when it said the camera would be delivered Monday.

Well, this afternoon, approximately two minutes before I had to leave for work, a UPS truck pulled up in front of our house. The thought BRIEFLY flitted across my mind… could this possibly be my camera arriving early? “Of COURSE not, silly person,” I told myself, “It was in KENTUCKY this morning.”

“I REFUSE to get excited.” I wisely proclaimed to nobody, “This is NOT my camera.” I briefly checked the return address, of course, after the UPS lady walked the package up to our door, but it said nothing about Newegg.com so I felt that settled the issue.

I resumed my “getting ready for work” routine while Mom opened the package. I was halfway through putting my hair up into a ponytail when Mom called from the living room, “Canon Digital Rebel XT?”

“AreyouFREAKINGkiddingme???” I shrieked. I swear I was back in that living room in 0.5 seconds. The next few moments were a happy blur of smiling and jumping up and down and screaming and lots of “Holyfreakingcow!”s and disbelief and… then I had to go to work. :-p

So anyway… I really need to go to bed, but I just wanted to let you all know that my new baby is here! I’m truly sorry that there are no pictures to accompany this post, but as I did not get a chance to even open the box until I got home from work, I have taken no pictures of great interest; nor have I installed the camera drivers on my computer yet. But soon. VERY SOON. You will be seeing a LOT of pictures from this camera.

Posted on Friday, June 9th, 2006 at 10:26 pm.
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