Early Delivery

Ordered a desk mat Thursday about noonish from Amazon. At 2:05 pm I got an email saying it would be here today (Saturday).

Yesterday morning (Friday), about 10 am, I heard a somewhat loud vehicle. That house across the street is for sale and has a lot of traffic (and the flippers have fairly loud trucks - which is what I really expected to see), and houses on either side that are being either built or rehabbed with work trucks and vans coming and going. When I looked out the window I did not expect it to be at my place, nor did I expect that type of vehicle. He started rummaging around in the back.

I grabbed my binoculars to see if I could make out anything distinguishing because the neighbors kitty-corner to me always get deliveries and I was wondering about porch pirates. Then the guy went to the passenger side back seat. When he opened that door, I could see a quick flash of Amazon boxes all over and he was moving packages all over, obviously looking for one. And it dawned on me that it was an Amazon truck - LMFAO.

So I grabbed my phone again just as he was finished looking there.

Then he went to the back seat on the driver's side, and started looking again. Then he went to the back hatch again. I'm thinking, "dude, that SUV isn't very big, how can it take that long to find the package you want?" I was also thinking he needed a bigger SUV as the one he had couldn't even hold as much as my old Jeep Patriot.
Anyway, he finally found the package and dropped it off. Spot fully approves of the box I got her

Comments

[Cop Car]

I couldn't imagine how they could get a chair mat in that small vehicle - until I saw the box. Your mat must be flexible.

I used a "stiff" mat for a while but hated it. I hope you like yours better. Mine developed indentations for my weight on the rollers of the chair, making it difficult for me to position/roll the chair. Of course, my chair is the old kind with 4 casterss instead of five but I assume that my weight is great enough that even 5 casters would have been a problem.

Pretty cactus. Just saw three similar plants (in full bloom) at our jeweler friend's place, yesterday, when we took one of your dad's watches in for a new battery.

[Cop Car]

Oh, my. I must learn to read. You wrote "desk mat" NOT "chair mat". I'm going back to bed. Have been up too long, already, working with scanned documents & photos.

[bogie]

Yes, desk mat not chair mat. I have an area rug for under my chair as I didn't want a hard mat and I think the rug is kinder to the hardwood flooring.

I noticed that the finish on the wood of the desk is taking a beating from my mouse, which I should have expected - I just never thought about it.

[Cop Car]

"I just never thought about it." Nor would I have thought about it. Your dad still uses a mouse pad, but it's been years since I've done that. Of course, my primary computer desk is glass-topped and my backup computer sits on a Formica-topped desk. Only my works-with-the-scanner computer sits on an unprotected top, but it is on your dad's old printer desk, from the days when printer spit out reams of connected dot-matrix-printed sheets - and the mouse gets used very little in the scanning process.