Anticipation…BAH!

Buying stuff on line is sort of like Christmas or your birthday.  You know something good is coming, but the anticipation is agony.  At least with Christmas and birthdays there is a drop dead date.  With the US Postal Service…who the hell knows. 

I ordered books from Amazon last week.  Five of them to be exact.  I’m still using gift certificates from my birthday.  Isn’t that like the best thing you’ve ever heard?  Alright, maybe not the best thing you’ve ever heard, but I think it’s awesome.   Anyway, I received all the confirmations promptly after I hit the “complete purchase” button.  I even received messages from the specific used book dealers that my orders had been shipped. 

I would race home from work every day and run to the mailbox, only to be sorely disappointed.  I trudge up to the house, hoping that the boxes would be too big for the mailbox.  I was destined to be disappointed.  Day after day.  I would think, “Surely today is the day”, but no. 

For three of the books (of course, the three I was most looking forward to) took two weeks.  TWO WEEKS!!   That is just not fair.  But today they finally arrived.  I got to have double excitement: one book was shoved in the mailbox and when I got to the house, Sassy was delighted to tell me that the other two were awaiting me inside.

Yippee! Now I just have to lock myself in the bathroom so I can get some reading done.  It’s actually not so bad.  After all, there is water available and squishy towels to sit on.  And, if nature calls, it’s not like you have far to go.