Thoughts in Time

Stopped by Barclays yesterday to find out about our accounts.  It was amusing - the lady who proposed to “help” us asked how long I was going to be a student here (I guess I still do look young when clean shaven?), and informed me that I couldn’t be premier as I’d have to have £1,000,000… somehow when the premier banking manager finally came out, learned a bit about our background, she got much nicer…. but we still don’t have an account open.  They’re supposed to call us today with an update.  We’ll see.

To follow up on my international e-commerce post, I was pretty excited that today was the day my IKEA stuff was going to be here… or that’s what I thought. As I write this, I’ve just finished speaking to IKEA customer service - who failed to see how they could help us get our stuff any earlier than this saturday after they didn’t deliver it today(between 7AM and 6pm - a tiny delivery window mind you)… and not just that - without telling me when I made the purchase, order had been split into two parts with the key part (the actual wardrobes), now scheduled for delivery in March (what the !”$£”$#?).  Yes sir - you can have your 12 sloppen shlippen baskets, but your hoppen dresser to put them in will be here in 30 days.  Of course you can trek to our massive store near Wembley - they might have them next week - oh, then you’d have to pay for extra delivery… well terribly sorry for the inconvenience…. Someone should compete with IKEA just on the wardrobe side…