Waiting In For A Delivery

I'm doing something called 'waiting in for a delivery'. I don't normally do this, because I rarely buy anything that I can't take home easily.

I've been waiting in for the delivery for almost two weeks now. 

I 'bought' a TV from John Lewis the trusted retailer which never turned up, despite me 'waiting in for the delivery', so I had to get a refund. I shopped at Curry's instead, and paid extra for 'next day delivery'. It didn't arrive, and I got a perky text to say it would be delivered the next day, when I wouldn't be in. So I rescheduled it to yesterday; it was confirmed. Did it arrive yesterday? 

Ha ha! Don't be silly!

It's supposed to be arriving today. I have printed out all the order details, because tomorrow I'm going to go into a branch of Currys and be annoying. Their telephone 'helpline' illegally says that you have to sort out a delivery problem yourself. Martin Lewis says you don't. Watch out tomorrow, Currys!

Meanwhile, I've had a bit of fun getting the Twitter chatbots of both Currys and John Lewis to talk to each other. I think romance is afoot. As for the delivery companies, they are far too savvy to allow people to contact them via social media!

I know I have written possibly the most boring post ever. But just imagine how I feel!

Postscript: after checking the DPD website and seeing the progress of the delivery actually was going backwards, I went into central London, and snarled at the manager of one of the Currys shops there. I phoned and cancelled the order while in the shop. Some poor chap was also trying to return something and he got fobbed off; unfortunately he has no mobile phone so couldn't cancel his order. Interestingly, the shop manager got into a verbal tangle, and more or less told me outright that people shouldn't order stuff online! So there you go.