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Do you all still like a good NDN parcel thread? Apparently I've ruined next door's Xmas

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JustAnotherOP · 18/12/2015 13:03

This gave me a good laugh, especially so as it's probably the first lighthearted thread I've written in a while so it's done me some good anyway.

Last week I took in a parcel for the neighbours - it was a large box, signed for it, all well and good so far. That evening the neighbours must've been out as when I knocked no-one answered.

The next day I caught the woman coming home and went over with the parcel. She looked slightly confused and told me that she hadn't been expecting anything but as the box was addressed to her she took it in anyway.

A few days later on my way out I saw the man (her husband) coming out of the house, waved hello as usual and he said "Oh hi JustAnotherOP, like ruining other people's Christmases do you?" I looked slightly puzzled and asked what he meant. Turns out that the parcel I'd handed over to the woman was actually her main Xmas present which she had subsequently opened.

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Aeroflotgirl · 18/12/2015 17:42

When dh orders me a present, he addresses it to himself so I don't open it,stupid man.

quietbatperson · 18/12/2015 18:28

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SauvignonBlanche · 18/12/2015 18:31

What a loon!

BorderTerrierControl · 18/12/2015 19:15

I'm told I ruin several Christmases per year (online retailer). Some make the effort to email on Christmas day itself to let me know just how disgusted they are with me. It's usually the ones that ordered at 11:30pm on the 23rd and completely ignored the BIG MESSAGE at checkout informing them that their order won't dispatch until the 28th.

I used to get quite upset by it, but dealing with customers in general has blackened my soul and I now envisage the more irate ones weeping with frustration over their soggy sprouts, furious like a toddler that the world does not orchestrate itself to gloss over their continuous fuck ups. And then I get a gleeful, giddy feeling, and my Christmas joy is complete Grin

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