Cats look as if they're "feed 'em and leave 'em" type pets. Cats are constantly wandering the streets but aren't skittish or malnourished, leaving me to think ownership of a cat is basically leave a bowl of food out for them and maybe let them in on a cold or rainy night. The other day I opened the shutters of my living room to see a cat just chillin on top of the garage roof!
I managed to find decent cat food online and ordered it for delivery. I had two options for shipping, kind of like Fed-Ex versus UPS, and not knowing the difference between the two I chose the one called GLS. Our apartment building is private, you can't get into the lobby without a key so what normally happens is the delivery man comes, finds your doorbell, and rings it. This sets off a phone in your apartment. You can either answer the phone and speak to them, or simply press a button on the phone that unlocks the lobby door. This way, a delivery man (or visitor for that matter) doesn't have to wait for you to go down however many flights of steps it may take to reach the lobby. If no one is home, the delivery man sends the parcel back to whatever delivery service office they came from and you have to pick it up there.
Knowing the delivery was scheduled today, I opted to stay home all day. Well, at 2:14 pm I get a text saying that the delivery many tried to deliver the parcel at 2:11 pm but no one was home so now I have to pick it up at some town I've never heard of before. Um, excuse me? I have been waiting here all day! I didn't shower! I was afraid to go to the bathroom! I guess upon seeing that the apartment building was private, the delivery man was too dang lazy to lift his tiny, lazy finger to press our doorbell. Seriously, our doorbell is one of the first ones listed, and very easy to spot. Now I have to go to somewhere that, for me, may as well be Timbuktu to get my parcel. Meanwhile, poor Lux is almost out of food.
Upon trying to find out where this GLS office is, because they don't text you an address, no, they just tell you the town, I find one somewhat near the town they said it was in. It's 20 minutes away by car and google maps can't tell me how to get there via public transportation. I also find out that it has 17 reviews, all 1 star. This is shaping up fantastically. I can't call and complain because 1. I don't speak French and 2. their call center CHARGES you for calling! I don't know what to do. Hopefully Jeremy's coworkers can shed some light on the situation tomorrow, or at least tell us how to get there via tram and bus.
I am so angry, I feel like my whole day was wasted. To top it all off, I posted this entire thing, and somehow the website deleted it! I hadn't saved it in a draft or anything like that, so now I had to rewrite the whole thing. At least tonight we will try a Thai restaurant we spotted the other day.
Early tomorrow afternoon, I have a meeting with the company who will be tutoring me to determine my level of French so they can plan a program to my skill level. Late tomorrow afternoon, I am meeting up with a coworker of Jeremy's. She takes her daughter to a place that teaches, among other things, conversational English. She told them about me and they said they would love to have me volunteer, so we are going tomorrow to see what it is all about.
Tomorrow is a very busy day! But hopefully I will have time to post. Even if I end up posting very late at night, it will still be a decent time for all my American readers!