I started my day by forcing myself out of my bed and downstairs to await a delivery on a replacement phone. Mundane one might think...but oh no, not in my world! So, the courier turns up parcel under arm (met the guy before when he delivered an ASOS package, he kindly shared his view of how students are merely lazy tax dodgers). He then proceeds to open the parcel for me and hands me a phone. Yes, A phone, not THE phone just THE WRONG PHONE! Ofcourse, it wasn't his fault, how was he to know the phone company cocked up? I refused delivery and set about my next task of confronting the phone company. After numerous times of being cut off, i finally spoke to someone who told me that my model had actually been discontinued so i had been sent this new phone as an alternative, however with it being a replacement you are not supplied with a battery or back cover for the phone. We agreed on the alternative phone being sent out again the next day on the terms that i would be credited for however much the battery and back cover would cost. With this in mind, i trotted off into town, quite annoyed by the whole ordeal and not holding out much hope to get either item in my local branch of the phone company. I was correct. I explained my ordeal to the man and he shared my confusion as to why i was not being given the complete brand new phone, battery, back cover and all. He then had a little look on his online store and informed me that both items were out of stock there too! After a few minutes of wondering how he could help me the man then did what seemed to be this years first dose of Christmas Spirit! He disappeared into the back room for a few minutes and reappeared with what appeared to be the phone i would be receiving the next day. He then took the phone out of the box and removed the back cover and battery and placed it infront of me. He then uttered a line which i considered pretty funny as he put the battery & backless phone back into it's box..."God knows why this phone was delivered to us without a back and a battery". I reached for my purse and he said..."no, don't worry about it". Saying that i wanted to hug him would be an understatement. After expressing my thanks in as many verbal means as possible i went on my way a very happy bunny. Now i know this may sound a it silly, me finding his little act of kindness so amazing, but i just keep thinking that he didn't have to go that far out of his way to help me. He didn't get a sale out of it, nor did he gain anything else. It was literally a selfless act. So, thank you very much to the man who saved my techno-disaster. May i also mention that being without a working phone is very hard! Sad i know :(
On a more interesting note, the girls and myself had our first homemade
If anything was reiterated tonight, apart from the fact that crude candy is a popular gift in our household, it was that Tian and myself do make one hell of a team, and are clearly on the same wavelength when it comes to describing a word in a way some others may not seem as obvious as it does to us. Although the night was perfect, it was also a goodbye to Nicole who is disappearing off on placement back home until March :(. I'm sure the once annoying footsteps i hear above my head of you plodding around of a morning will soon turn into a distant comforting memory...or maybe i'll enjoy the silence! I just hope Tian and Becca don't leave me too! Au Revoir for now Nicole, mwah!
On that note, I am off to watch 'Living with the Amish' to remind myself that I should back off the material goods (ie. fashion related shopping!)
Goodnight from a festive fizzy Holly
xoxo
P.S. Happy December!
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