Failure to Deliver

In the past two days, I have faced two dissappointments by a company not delivering what I paid for. The first incident was when I came home from work expecting to find my new computer chips on the stoop of my rear door as my UPS tracking report indicated. But when I searched the back door and then around the entire house the package was nowhere to be found. I then questioned my roommate and landlord to see if they have seen my package worth $250 that UPS just left sitting outside my house. So I called them up and they are going to have to do an investigation and maybe I'll get my package in a couple of weeks.

The second incident was last night as we went to Midway airport for our annual new years weekend trip to Boston. After entering the airport we noticed that our flight was three hours delayed, then four hours delayed, then five hours delayed and then cancelled. We had the option to fly standby and compete against everyone on our scheduled flight to get there. But instead we did what all winners do: give up and go home.

Both incidents were just really dissappointing. I think what really makes these let-downs dissappointing was the excitement that built up as the dates approached only to come home empty handed.