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Th delivery of a new couch ... took a day off because they couldn't give an exact time, was confined to the house the entire day and around 4pm they finally arrived with the new couch. I found out they used the wrong color fabric, so ended up without a couch for several more weeks and another day off gone to hell.

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That's ridiculous!

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Ohhhhhhhhh, you know.

A certain NINE pound, THRITEEN ounce bundle 'o joy two months ago sans pain killers was pretty intense there for a moment.

Every other delivery I've had seems like CAKE in comparison. ;)

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Haha I didn't even think about that kind of delivery.. you're right, though :)

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Since baby is 2 months, whenever I hear 'delivery' that comes to mind. =)

But you know how it is...the 'package' is SO worth any inconvenience. ;)

P.S. Your baby is beautiful!

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Congrats! Boy or a girl? And I'm always curious about names :)

They are worth everthing ... my little man was worth months of strict bedrest, weeks of hospitalization and a hellish delivery but I'd do it all over again without a second thought :)

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My baby boy, Ralph William, is named after both his grandfathers. Sophia Marie's, my first, middle name is after her grandmother. We just loved the name Sophia - not a family name. Ralph is 2 months and Sophia is 3 years old. I'm a busy (and very happy) mommy!

What's your son's name and how old is he? Is he your only one?

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I like those names! Especially Sophia is absolutely beautiful. Have to admit that after having one, who grew up so fast it made my head spin, the idea of a 2d one is appealing but after my pregnancy I don't think so.

He's going on 15 months now, named him Jayden Dominic (Jayden is a name you don't hear in Holland often, so at least here we're unique :)

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Oh I *like* that name - very nice! =)

Everyone warned - they grow so fast, they grow so fast! - but what I don't understand is why no one told me that THEY GROW SO FAST! ;)

I totally hear you. I simply can NOT believe that Sophia is 3 years old. Most of my lj list read about me trying to have a baby and now THAT baby is three - not possible but...yes.

I think the beauty of a 2nd child is the savoring. I worried so SO much with Sophia that I think I almost missed savoring the moment because I thought THE MOMENT would last forever. It doesn't, does it? So this baby? Oh, this baby....I'm savoring because I know I will blink and then he'll be three. Such a happy/sad thought but you're a mom - you know what I mean. =)

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Ouch...

*Note to self: Call Mum more often...

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Good boy. ;)

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smwright.livejournal.com

I love your screencap. :)

My worst delivery ever was also a child, my third daughter. Ha. I thought I would be the only one to tell a baby story. Not that she was so large (although she was my largest, at a whopping 6lbs, 3oz). No, it was the worst, because I arrived at hospital at 9cm, and the registration nurse couldn't speak English... therefore, she was nearly born in the lobby. 10 mins after being hauled into the bed and being told by the midwife it was so very far too late for drugs, there she was.

I recall the registration nurse asking, "Do you feel like you're going to have the baby now, Mrs. Weeks?" First of all, it's Doctor Weeks, and second, no, lady, I'm beating the hell out of your counter because it amuses me. :)

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Ouch... but the way you tell it, I had to laugh :D

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It sounds like your delivery went rather quickly. So did mine! But I love to complain because it really was the most hellish 12 minutes I've experienced (hahaha!) - if it were up to me, those mere minutes, would have been spent in epidural bliss but alas...

But I do love the fact that I delivered "on my own" without any pain killers - it gives me credibility (to myself) and I can flaunt my female machismo. ;)

We are women - rrrrrrroar! =)

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avis-noctis.livejournal.com

Probably the delivery of a shirt that got lost in the mail and ended up taking around four months to arrive.

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Four months? Yikes!

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fayruz.livejournal.com

My bed, which I was faithfully promised would arrive on a certain day so I unassembled the old bed (one of those wooden Argos type beds) to make room for the new one. Obviously it didn't arrive. I had to sleep on the floor but I managed to rant to the right person in the customer services deparment because the new bed arrived the next day and they gave me a 20% discount on the price for the inconvenience.

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Score on the discount!

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tonya.livejournal.com

This isn't the "worst" experience, but it's the strangest.

Mike ordered a jersey from the ESPN store. It was delivered one day 3:13pm. Mike left for work at 2:30pm. I was gone with my mom from around noon until 8:00pm.

Here's the strange part. The package was in our garage. In our locked garage. I tracked the package online and FedEx claimed Mike signed for it. I tried to view the signature but it was unavailable. I called FedEx. After arguing with the bimbo who answered, she basically told me only the shipper can see the signature. She would send a message to the driver and find out if he left it with someone or what. So I called the shipper to see if they could track it and at least tell me what name was signed. They could track it and see that it was delivered, but when they tried to view the signature, their firewall blocked the page. I got a call on the other line. It was FedEx letting me know a case was opened and someone would call me back in the morning.

The next morning the lady from Fedex called me back. She spoke to the driver. Here is part of the message she left for me:

"...Spoke to the driver regarding your concern, driver does not have a key to your house, did not sign Michael's name. He drove up, there was someone outside, he asked if this was the Kanines', and he said yes, and he signed for the package, and the gentleman put it in the garage that was there. Appeared to be a gentleman in his 20s, had light blond hair... he said there was someone there in your driveway, he's thinking there was a car in the garage when he was there, the person he said was right outside the garage like he lived there, so didn't know if it was your son, or maybe your husband, but his person appeared to have, you know, lived there."

So yeah, that freaked me out. The only thing I can think is that the driver had the wrong house in mind. There's no way someone parked their car in the garage and was hanging out in front of the house. I called her back and that's basically all the info she had. She gave me the drivers number but I never called him. Apparently it wasn't the normal driver for this area, so I don't know why he so specifically remembered everything about the package.

My mother-in-law thinks the driver signed for it and put it in the garage (maybe we accidentally left a door unlocked). And he locked up and left. But he won't come out and say what he did because he could get in trouble.

I have no idea who this young guy could have been either. All of our neighbors are old. I talked to the neighbors across the street and they didn't notice anything out of the ordinary going on.

We ended up getting a faxed copy of the signature. It did say my husband's name, but it was NOT his handwriting. So SOMEONE signed his name.

Needless to say we changed out locks. It still freaks me out to think about it!

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That's definitely freaky! Although, I'm inclined to agree with your mother-in-law...

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tonya.livejournal.com

Yeah, me too.

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avis-noctis.livejournal.com

That is really scary. But your mother-in-law might be right.

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mighty-rontor.livejournal.com

This year, getting Nan's Valentines flowers a day late. It wasn't my fault, but I felt like a fucking schmuck.

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moonlights-lair.livejournal.com

I ordered some books from chapters...

The day they arrived I was in the middle of getting ready to go out for the evening, I had applied a a blue mud masque and curlers were in my hair...

I was so busy I forgot about them (I had two babies running about at the time)

So when the mail arrived and I had to sign for my package I was puzzled by the odd smile coming from the postperson - THEN I remembered that I was wearing a bulging bright pink kerchief and was sporting a blue nose...

*shrugs*

That would be the worst.

Laureena.

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uawildcatgrl.livejournal.com

I've never really had a bad one...I've lived in the same place forever and the drivers all know where to leave my stuff!

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mishi-ragdoll.livejournal.com

i ordered chinese food and the little chinese man delievered the wrong thing...i was pissed lol

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