Anyone else having a bad day? (3)

[emsiewill]

Thought I'd start another one of these.
DH has just been to the gym (didn't want him to - but that's another story). While he was there, his wallet was stolen from his locker, as were his house and car keys. And guess what? so was his car. (So easy to work out which car goes with which keys nowadays - just press the button on the key). I've cancelled his cards, and there wasn't much (less than £20) cash in the wallet. But we need the car (school not particularly accessible by foot, dh needs it to get to work etc...), and I'm currently waiting for a locksmith to change the locks on all 3 of our doors. This is covered by our insurance up to £150, but something tells me that the call out on a Sunday will take much of that, even before the work has started.
Dh is meant to be at work this evening - no-one else to cover as one of the managers was helping out at another site last night and was held up at gunpoint, so is not feeling particularly good today (dh was meant to be there, but I said I didn't want him going away again - thank God), the other manager is on compassionate leave as her brother was killed in an accident last weekend. So me and the girls are going to be alone until past midnight in a house which will be secure, but where I'll be imagining that someone is trying to get in.
Sorry to sound a bit pathetic, but I'm trying not to let the children see how much this has shaken me.
And I've just remembered, we spent nearly £400 on the car on Friday - MOT and service.
B**D.

Well, here I am again. What a moaning minnie.
It's our wedding anniversary today, and I had arranged for a special meal to be delivered - the food comes ready prepared and all you have to do is put it together and cook it. The website I ordered from clearly stated that you can have the food delivered while you're out, and even gives you a space on the order form to give directions as to where the food should be left (it comes in a cool bag in case you're worried about food hygiene). So I told them to leave it by the back door, which is behind a gate, and out of the view of the (very busy) mainroad we live on.
So I came home this evening at 6 and the food had not arrived, gave them a call, and discovered that the food had actually been delivered at 3 this afternoon and had been left on the top front doorstep, which is very visible from the road. So obviously someone saw a great opportunity and nicked it! The company (who I won't name, as it's really the fault of the courier company they employ) were very apologetic, and are refunding me the money, but the point is that now we're not going to be able to have the special meal I had planned, and are limited to whatever dh can find at Tesco.
They are contacting me tomorrow "to see what they can do for me" (as well as a refund), so I'm hoping they'll give us a voucher and we can give them another chance.
But I do despair of anyone who could think that it would be a good idea to leave a delivery for someone in such a visible place on such a busy road.
Rant over.

what a bummer, emsiewill! hope your dh finds something good at Tesco's. have a wonderful evening.

Emsiewill

Hope you had a good meal in the end.

I've had bad experiences with delivery firms before, one delivered some boxes of comics to a friend and left them on the doorstep in the rain. We got to them just as the water seeped through the boxes luckily.

The best one was a company that only delivered Mon-Fri 9-5 and as DW and I both worked they could never deliver to us as it needed a signature. We had to arrange with the company sending it to not use that courier and in the end changed the delivery address.

Oh emsiewill, that's awful. Hope you managed to salvage something of the day and that the company make it up to you big style.
Looking forward to meeting you in Cardiff on the 5th!

Sorry to hear that Emsiewill, hope you had a nice evening after all. A courier service working for a highly regarded company recently delivered my parents some dead roses (from me, for their wedding anniversary) a week late. Lovely. Couriers really are hopeless! Happy Anniversary just the same.

Ahh the accursed couriers. I particularly love the ones who deliver at 7 on a Saturday morning.

Can I add to the bad day list? I went into the sluglet's room this morning to find her covered in vomit. She insisted on having teddy with her, even though he's so covered in sick that even she will only hold by his ears and wail. She threw up on me 3 times while I was getting ready for work (cue slightly inappropriate clothes at work to day - it's all that was left after all those changes) And to top it all she squirmed so much that I pulled a back muscle and am now walking like an old lady.

Oh and a work colleague died suddenly on Saturday, and my sister is no longer responding to Chemotherapy, with all that that implies. I'm trying not to think about it.

I've just spent £700 getting my car fixed and dp's pranged it this morning. Worse still, he's only insured third party on my car so we're going to have to pay for the damage to it and the bitch he crashed into wanted him to sign to admit full liability there and then! He didn't, but I've just arranged a tow truck and that alone is £45 which we can't afford. I suppose at least no-one was hurt but I am really really pi off. Wish I'd done the school run.

Oh no, www, big commiserations. Amazing how even a small and non-serious bump can cost ££££. Keep focussing on how no-one was hurt (until you have time to get your hands properly on dp, that is).

Oh I know exactly how that feels - you're soooooo cross that soooooo much money has been ''wasted'' just like that. Hmmmmmm BUMMER.
I had a particularly abortive trip to Ikea this weekend (NEVER again - ring to check stock!???? It had been DISCONTINUED yet they still claimed it was in stock on the phone!)but tried to ''comfort'' myself on the way back by reminding myself of the ikea trip a year or so back where I had a prang on the way home - now that really WAS a bummer of a deal!

Much sympathy, www. I read somewhere that car repairs fall into the top ten causes of stress. They always seem to happen and the wrong financial time as well, don't they? Same sort of thing has happened to us. Hope you find a good and cheap garage.

bayleaf - was it the Birmingham Ikea you were at? Funnily enough we were there too on Saturday - though they did have what we wanted (shelves and wooden toyboxes), so we didn't get the wasted trip. Looks like we missed a possible meetup again!

Thanks for the sympathy guys. Bayleaf, I'd rather sort out car repairs than go to Ikea. I've calmed down now and realised that the main thing is that nobody was hurt.

But just think www, how everyone will point and say,'Ooo, look at the £700+ repairs on that car'.

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